How much did CultureWorks Inc grant in FY2024?

CultureWorks Inc reported 15 grants totaling $540,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is CultureWorks Inc based?

CultureWorks Inc is based in VA.

CultureWorks Inc

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· Public charity

CultureWorks Inc

CultureWorks is committed to its mission: strengthening artists and arts and culture organizations to increase their impact in our region.

$541k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$49k

Largest

01What you fund

0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.6MEducation$129kCommunity Improvement$32kEmployment$27kHuman Services$5kOther$241k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

expandart

2020

building capabilities

2021

equity covidcovid relief

2022

studiomakechangemembersartmindspirit

2023

art

2024

building capabilities

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k12 grants · $344k

$27,049

Median grant

States reached

$666k

Total assets

Largest grants

The Richmond Symphony$48,885
Elegba Folklore Society Inc$46,192
The Valentine$44,975
Richmond Ballet$32,264
Virginia Museum of History & Culture$31,612
Black History Museum$31,611
Virginia Repertory Theatre$30,227
Children's Museum of Richmond$27,049
Virginia Opera$16,295
Visual Arts Center of Richmond$14,991
Petersburg Area Art League Inc$10,000
Latin Ballet of Virginia$10,000
Edgar Allan Poe Museum$8,799
Gallery 5$7,500
Richmond Jazz Society Inc$7,170

02The need

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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 29 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+195%

Still filing today

93%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman ServicesOther

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

EF
Elegba Folklore Society Inc
7× · 2018–2024 · $336k · revenue +38% · 30% of their budget
VR
Valentine Richmond History Center
7× · 2018–2024 · $315k · revenue +38%
RS
Richmond Symphony
6× · 2018–2023 · $293k · revenue +57%

Funded once

MR
Milk River Arts
one grant, 2022 · $15k
GF
GreenSpring Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -65%
DD
Dogtown Dance LLC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +33%

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.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation

The virginia museum of fine arts foundation (foundation) was founded in 1976 to support the virginia museum of fine arts (museum), an agency of the commonwealth of virginia. to accomplish its mission, the foundation administers a…

Arts & Culture

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Vcca's mission is to provide time and space for national and international writers, visual artists, and composers of talent and promise to bring forth their finest works, because the arts are vital, diversity is a strength, and creativity…

Arts & Culture

The Richmond Symphony Foundation

To support the richmond symphony.

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Embracing Arlington Arts

Embracing Arlington Arts is an independent citizens group comprised of arts supporters whose mission is to advance the vibrancy and health of the arts and culture in Arlington County, Virginia through advocacy and awareness programs,…

Arts & Culture

Cultural Voice of North Carolina

Provide Calendars and Reviews of NC Arts

Arts & Culture

Diversity Richmond Inc

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (lgbtq+) community, their families, friends and allies, diversity richmond is a catalyst, a voice, a place…

Education

Richmond Art Center

To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.

Arts & Culture

Richmond Shakespeare

We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation.

Arts & Culture

Maryland Lyric Opera

Arts & Culture

Alexandria Symphony Orchestra

Symphony orchestra concert performances and music education.

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Village Arts Vb

Education special needs adults

—

Charles H Taylor Arts Center Foundation

The theatre and the arts center offer a series of concerts and exhibitions and workshops by performers and artists the purpose of the theatre is to promote the arts to the citizens of greater hampton roads virginia.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Repertory Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Dogtown Dance Theatre. 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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/47

the rest of the field

11%

413/3,610

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.

05the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/39

Grantees still filing

29/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$2,577,583Other$240,703Education$129,365Community Improvement$32,412Employment$27,000Human Services$5,000

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

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.

The Community Foundation IncVA69.4× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation CultureWorks 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Elegba Folklore Society Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541633907 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Elegba Folklore Society Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 30% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to CultureWorks Inc?

Find your warmest path to CultureWorks Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CultureWorks Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to CultureWorks Inc?

More from the funding graph

CultureWorks Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to CultureWorks Inc?

More from the funding graph