Texas · Public charity
Creative Waco
CREATIVE WACO's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.
- $295k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $232k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $48,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $925k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Creative Waco funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $232k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $188k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $264k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $229k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $173k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $172k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $178k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $165k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waco Civic Theatre | $318,700 | 8 | 22% |
| Waco Creative Art Center | $301,850 | 8 | 22% |
| Waco Symphony Association Inc | $300,500 | 8 | 10% |
| Waco Cultural Arts Fest | $165,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Waco Cultural Arts Fest | $125,000 | 4 | 22% |
| Heart of Texas Film Society | $94,886 | 8 | 21% |
| Gb Lindsey Family Charitable Fund | $59,658 | 6 | 41% |
| Silent House Theatre Dba Fractured Atlas | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wild Imaginings | $23,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Empowerment Driven by Knowledge Coalition | $21,229 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waco Civic Theatre | $318,700 | 8 | 22% |
| Waco Creative Art Center | $301,850 | 8 | 22% |
| Waco Symphony Association Inc | $300,500 | 8 | 10% |
| Waco Cultural Arts Fest | $165,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Waco Cultural Arts Fest | $125,000 | 4 | 22% |
| Heart of Texas Film Society | $94,886 | 8 | 21% |
| Gb Lindsey Family Charitable Fund | $59,658 | 6 | 41% |
| Silent House Theatre Dba Fractured Atlas | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wild Imaginings | $23,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Empowerment Driven by Knowledge Coalition | $21,229 | 2 | n/a |
| Trinity Sports Organization | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Professional Artists of Central Texas | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Comm | $8,875 | 2 | 3% |
| Heart of Texas Childrens Theatre | $8,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Artist-N-U | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity Inc | $5,785 | 1 | 3% |
| This Is Waco | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Chorus of Central Texas | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Texas Jazz Society | $4,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Waco School of the Arts | $4,710 | 1 | n/a |
| Out on a Limb Dance Company | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Waco-McLennan County Public Health District | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quetzal Company | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($79k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Creative Waco supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Waco Foundation · Cooper Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Creative Waco
- How much does Creative Waco give?
- Creative Waco reported 11 itemized grants totaling $232,000, out of $294,606 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Creative Waco fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Food & Nutrition (2%), Youth Development (1%).
- Who are Creative Waco's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Waco Civic Theatre ($319k), Waco Creative Art Center ($302k), Waco Symphony Association Inc ($301k).
- Does Creative Waco fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Creative Waco?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Waco Foundation, Cooper Foundation, The Fentress Foundation.
- Where is Creative Waco based?
- Creative Waco is based in TX.
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