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· Public charity

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 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 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.8MEnvironment$424kEducation$182kYouth Development$176kScience & Tech$160kEmployment$100kHealth$92kHuman Services$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 56 grants below total $1,366,917, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,396,917 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,000 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 $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
Gulfstream Goodwill Industries$50,000
Digital Vibes Inc$50,000
Boca Raton Muuseum of Art Inc$50,000
Palm Beach Symphony$50,000
Center for Creative Education$50,000
Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc$50,000
Spady Cultural Heritage Museum$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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
  • SR
    Spanish River Concerts Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -55%
  • ST
    SEA TURTLE ADVENTURES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue -10%
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
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
Artis-Naples Inc

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

Arts & Culture
4
Florida Classical Ballet Inc

Ballet instruction - students up to the age of 18

Arts & Culture
5
Music in Miami Inc

Classical Music education and appreciation

Arts & Culture
6
Palm Coast Music Festival Inc
Arts & Culture
7
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
8
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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9
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
10
Florida Education and Arts Trust
Philanthropy
11
Miami Beach Film Society

Offer cultural experience

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Contemporary Art Inc

The mission of the musuem of contemporary art is to contemporary art accesible to diverse audiences - especially underserved populations through the collection, preservation and exhibition of the best of contemporary art and its art…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative City Collaborative of Delray Beach Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/67
Grantees still filing
37/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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
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.

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

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 Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 73 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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