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Creative West

CREATIVE WEST is a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6.4MEducation$228kYouth Development$175kEnvironment$118kHousing & Shelter$116kCommunity Improvement$90kRecreation & Sports$69kReligion$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 44 grants below total $951,927, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,436,047 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $484,120 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $704k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $220k
$17,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN ARTS ALLIANCE$219,956
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN NEVADA$38,461
WYOMING ARTS COUNCIL - WIMI PROGRAM$30,010
NEW MEXICO ARTS FOUNDATION$24,348
BREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANY INC$22,000
GUAM COUNCIL ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES AGENCY$20,000
NINA KEMPPEL$18,000
MARYDANCESTUDIO$17,327
PORTLAND INDIGENOUS MARKETPLACE$17,120
ARTES DE MEXICO EN UTAH$17,120
ALMA NM$17,120
SANKOFA CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF ALASKA$17,120
LOS DESCENDIENTES DEL PRESIDIO DE TUCSON$17,000
OAXACA EN UTAH$17,000
MARGARITA DACEL DBA WORLD THEATER PRODUCTIONS$17,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CENTER POLE: $17k → 23%GRAND CONCERTS INC: $6k → 7%SOUTHWEST IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL: $5k → 12%FREE2LUV INC: $27k → 9%FREE2LUV INC: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
MT
IL
NY
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NM
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 82 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
172

Total granted

$4.1M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+11%

Still filing today

74%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $593k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WA
    Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +46% · 28% of their budget
  • MD
    MUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $118k · revenue +25%
  • II
    INDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • LB
    LITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $74k
  • IP
    INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $74k · revenue +5%
  • SI
    STEWART INDIAN SCHOOL CULTURAL & MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $74k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
2
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
3
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
4
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
5
Rootstock Arts

Foster professional development of creative artists

Arts & Culture
6
Theatre Artibus

Artibus is dedicated to strengthening community through the experience of live performance. We are a hub in Denver for intimate, original performances that explore important social themes and for building community through shared space,…

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7
Cal Center Presents

Arts presenter serving the greater Reedsburg area.

Arts & Culture
8
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa

To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…

Arts & Culture
9
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
10
Wallowa Valley Arts Council

To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.

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11
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc

Cultural and educational performances

—
12
Planet Arts Inc

Cultural and educational performances

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playhouse Arts; the most unlike its peers is MaryDanceStudio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

234 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 234 of the 294 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
227/234
Grantees still filing
148/234
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation: $1,272,870 · Arts & CultureWestern Alliance of Arts Administrators FoundationArts Northwest: $219,535 · Arts & Culture+118 more: $3,839,852 · Arts & Culture+118 moreLITTLE BIG HORN COLLEGE: $74,000 · OtherSTEWART INDIAN SCHOOL CULTURAL & MUSEUM: $74,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION: $73,839 · OtherCrows Shadow Institute Inc: $63,839 · OtherGALLUPARTS INC: $63,839 · Other+58 more: $1,361,572 · Other+58 moreKIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC: $43,839 · Youth DevelopmentKeshet Dance Company: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORSE WARRIORS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRO CULTURAL MEXICANO CORP: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLights Camera Discover: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LAB LEARNING AND ACTION BUFFET: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentARK REGIONAL SERVICES INC: $48,839 · Housing & ShelterPEAR: $43,840 · Housing & ShelterKUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC: $38,839 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $20,000 · Community ImprovementEPICENTER: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada: $38,461 · PhilanthropyLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $17,750 · PhilanthropyArt State Arizona: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $24,375 · Education
Arts & Culture$5,332,257Other$1,711,089Youth Development$167,839Housing & Shelter$92,679Community Improvement$78,839Philanthropy$71,211Education$69,375

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestern Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation: $1,272,870 over 9y, 28% of budgetArts Northwest: $219,535 over 8y, 33% of budgetRISING YOUTH THEATRE: $122,839 over 2y, 29% of budgetMUSEO DE LAS AMERICAS: $117,839 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLANGSTON: $117,839 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetINDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED: $95,339 over 5y, 16% of budgetQueer Women of Color Media Arts Project: $93,839 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetPINEDALE FINE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $79,250 over 4y, 17% of budgetINDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER: $74,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPLAZA DE LA RAZA INC: $74,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION: $73,839 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $73,839 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSU TEATRO INC: $72,589 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN TIME ARTS: $69,939 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCrows Shadow Institute Inc: $63,839 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetBLACK THEATRE TROUPE INC: $63,839 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGALLUPARTS INC: $63,839 over 2y, 27% of budgetGuam Humanities Council: $55,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: $50,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetXico Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetYOUTH ON RECORD: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetARK REGIONAL SERVICES INC: $48,839 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetART MUSEUM OF EASTERN IDAHO: $48,839 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetTerrain Programs: $45,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMY VOICE MUSIC INC: $45,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetArt Access: $45,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTHE FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO INTERTRIBAL POW-WOW ASSOCIATION: $43,940 over 2y, 15% of budgetPEAR: $43,840 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTEATRO VISION: $43,839 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetPLATTEFORUM: $43,839 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSan Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company: $43,839 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPlayhouse Arts: $43,839 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetKIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT INC: $43,839 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetQCC The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture: $43,839 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS INC: $43,839 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMOANALUA GARDENS FOUNDATION INC: $43,839 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetartEquity Community: $43,839 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVelocity Dance Center: $43,839 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS: $43,839 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetARTOWN: $41,875 over 3y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

New England Foundatio…ArtsfundJames F & Marion L Mi…M J Murdock Charitabl…Bonfils-Stanton Found…National Performance …The Andrew W Mellon F…Rasmuson FoundationRedlineCharlotte y Martin Fo…Pacificorp Foundation…The Shubert Foundatio…
New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA40.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Artsfund · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · National Performance Network Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Redline · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Shubert Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Creative West funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Creative West. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • My Voice Music Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Tower Theatre Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Craterian Performances Company: 6% of income from government
  • Media-Rites: 4% of income from government
  • Profile Theatre Project: 2% of income from government
  • High Desert Chamber Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boom Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pear: 1% of income from government
  • Crows Shadow Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 294 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home