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Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc

To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$2.1MEducation$496kEnvironment$242kHuman Services$239kYouth Development$164kRecreation & Sports$126kEmployment$100kScience & Tech$40kAnimals$36kOther$553k
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 56 grants below total $1,366,917 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,396,917 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $755k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $525k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Milagro Foundation Inc$65,000
Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc$60,000
Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc$50,000
Center for Creative Education$50,000
Boca Raton Muuseum of Art Inc$50,000
Gulfstream Goodwill Industries$50,000
Spady Cultural Heritage Museum$50,000
Digital Vibes Inc$50,000
Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc$50,000
Palm Beach Symphony$50,000
Habilitation Center for the Handicapped Inc$40,000
Middle School of the Arts Foundation Inc$40,000
FAU Foundation Inc Dorothy Schmidt College of Arts & Letters$37,000
The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach Inc$30,000
Resource Depot$26,549
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Fiesta De Pueblo Inc: $17k → 11%Fiesta De Pueblo Inc: $15k → 11%Fiesta De Pueblo Inc: $15k → 11%AZUL-Fashion Art and Design Inc: $12k → 11%Boca Raton Promise: $6k → 11%Boca Raton Promise: $6k → 11%Grandma's House: $2k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts Inc: $24k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts Inc: $20k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts Inc: $20k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts: $17k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts Inc: $16k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts: $15k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts: $14k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts: $13k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts: $11k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts: $10k → 11%Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 60 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
10

Total granted

$4.0M
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

87%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MF
    MILAGRO FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +51%
  • RD
    RESOURCE DEPOT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +75%
  • BC
    BENZAITEN CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • SP
    Street Painting Festival Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue 0% · 93% of their budget
  • ST
    SEA TURTLE ADVENTURES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue -10%
  • SR
    Spanish River Concerts Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -55%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Paxy Inc

PAXy came together to promote Cultural Arts, and to educate and raise awareness of Miami's Cultural Arts and its benefits.

Arts & Culture
2
Creative Kids Srq
Arts & Culture
3
Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida Inc

A charitable ballet company producing professional ballet performances for the public, Arts Ballet Theatre provides accessibility, community involvement & education & training for professional and pre-professional dancers. It also provides…

Arts & Culture
4
Florida Classical Ballet Inc

Ballet instruction - students up to the age of 18

Arts & Culture
5
Artis-Naples Inc

Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.

Arts & Culture
6
Florida Ballet At Jacksonville Inc

The mission of the florida ballet is to enrich and inspire the cultural landscape of our community through the education and art of classical ballet.

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7
Palm Coast Music Festival Inc
Arts & Culture
8
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.

Arts & Culture
9
Florida Education and Arts Trust
Philanthropy
10
Royal Palm Players Inc

Royal palm players is dedicated to providing boca grande and surrounding communities with outstanding live theater and drama education in order to create a deeper sense of community, provide grist for thoughtfull discussion, and enrich the…

Arts & Culture
11
Miami Beach Film Society

Offer cultural experience

Arts & Culture
12
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc

To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative City Collaborative of Delray Beach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Palm Beach County Surfing History Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr17%4%5–10yr22%33%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr9%16%35–55yr8%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr22%23%10–20yr18%46%20–35yr9%18%35–55yr8%11%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/73
the rest of the field
16%
1,398/8,489

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/67
Grantees still filing
36/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILAGRO FOUNDATION INC — $254,447 · Arts & CultureMILAGRO FOUNDATION INCAequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble — $152,444 · Arts & CultureAequalis Inc dba The Core EnsembleARTS4ALL FLORIDA INC — $148,140 · Arts & CultureARTS4ALL FLORIDA INCBOYNTON CULTURAL CENTRE INC — $145,050 · Arts & CultureBOYNTON CULTURAL CENTRE INCCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $126,457 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATIONCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — $120,000 · Arts & CultureCox Science Center and Aquarium IncSPADY CULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $112,045 · Arts & CultureSPADY CULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INCYouth Orchestras of Palm Beach County Inc — $110,139 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $106,651 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC — $96,103 · Arts & Culture+17 more — $519,803 · Arts & Culture+17 moreRESOURCE DEPOT INC — $181,112 · EducationRESOURCE DEPO…Nat King Cole Generation Hope Inc — $90,548 · EducationNat King Cole…MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $88,323 · EducationMIDDLE SCHOOL…FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $74,000 · EducationFLORIDA ATLAN…YOUNG SINGERS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $44,000 · EducationYOUNG SINGERS…FLAMINGO CLAY STUDIO INC — $17,573 · EducationHABILITATION CENTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC — $80,000 · OtherHABILITATION CENTER …ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC — $54,206 · OtherANN NORTON SCULPTURE…Delray Beach Chorale Inc — $52,365 · OtherDelray Beach Chorale…LOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · OtherLOXAHATCHEE RIVER HI…BOCA RATON PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONIA INC — $43,284 · OtherBOCA RATON PHILHARMO…School of the Arts Foundation Inc — $40,000 · OtherSchool of the Arts F…BAM FESTIVAL INC — $30,360 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $28,269 · OtherGulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc — $100,000 · OtherGulfstream Goodwill …LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC — $40,000 · OtherLOGGERHEAD MARINELIF…+18 more — $209,779 · Other+18 moreTHE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC — $124,143 · EnvironmentAUDUBON EVERGLADES INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $18,253 · EnvironmentBENZAITEN CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS INC — $166,623 · Human ServicesFIESTA DE PUEBLO INC — $46,924 · Human ServicesAZUL - FASHION ART DESIGN INC — $11,971 · Human ServicesBOCA RATON'S PROMISE ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH INC — $11,684 · Human Services+1 more — $1,860 · Human ServicesDigital Vibez Inc — $164,281 · Youth DevelopmentDELRAY BEACH ARTS INC — $125,610 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$2,091,279Education$495,556Other$728,263Environment$242,396Human Services$239,062Youth Development$164,281Recreation & Sports$125,610

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILAGRO FOUNDATION INC — $254,447 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetRESOURCE DEPOT INC — $181,112 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetBENZAITEN CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS INC — $166,623 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetDigital Vibez Inc — $164,281 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetAequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble — $152,444 over 9y, 19% of budgetARTS4ALL FLORIDA INC — $148,140 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetBOYNTON CULTURAL CENTRE INC — $145,050 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $126,457 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDELRAY BEACH ARTS INC — $125,610 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC — $124,143 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPADY CULTURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $112,045 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetYouth Orchestras of Palm Beach County Inc — $110,139 over 9y, 33% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $106,651 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC — $96,103 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNat King Cole Generation Hope Inc — $90,548 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetMIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $88,323 over 3y, 10% of budgetHABILITATION CENTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC — $80,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $74,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANCE THEATER OF FLORIDA INC — $60,412 over 5y, 25% of budgetANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC — $54,206 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDelray Beach Chorale Inc — $52,365 over 5y, 52% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC — $51,823 over 5y, 23% of budgetLOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIESTA DE PUEBLO INC — $46,924 over 2y, 27% of budgetYOUNG SINGERS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $44,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOCA RATON PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONIA INC — $43,284 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC — $42,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE CITY COLLABORATIVE OF DELRAY BEACH INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSchool of the Arts Foundation Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetELEVAR FOUNDATION INC — $32,584 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $28,269 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCHORAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $26,336 over 4y, 16% of budgetPALM BEACH OPERA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MASTERWORKS CHORUS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC — $24,772 over 5y, 11% of budgetBLUE PLANET GLOBAL EDUCATION INC — $24,133 over 3y, 59% of budgetLake Worth Beach Cultural Renaissance Foundation Inc — $23,273 over 3y, 15% of budgetMARTIN L KING JR COORDINATING CMTE — $21,530 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE TARAS OCEANOGRAPHIC FOUNDATION INC — $21,073 over 4y, 16% of budgetCARIBBEAN AMERICAN FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT INC — $20,942 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOUNTS BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $18,253 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …United Way of Palm Be…Children's Healthcare…The Batchelor Foundat…The Jim Moran Foundat…John S and James L Kn…Impact 100 Palm Beach…The Chamber of Nonpro…The Mary Alice Fortin…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…Extraordinary Chariti…Albert E and Birdie W…
Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL54.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Impact 100 Palm Beach County Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Extraordinary Charities Inc · Albert E and Birdie W Einstein Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Gulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Grandmas Place Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
  • ARTS4ALL Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Lighthouse Artcenter Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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