How much does CultureWorks Inc give?

CultureWorks Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $434,093, out of $565,975 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does CultureWorks Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Community Improvement (1%), Public Benefit (1%).

Who are CultureWorks Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elegba Folklore Society Inc ($425k), The Valentine Museum ($398k), The Richmond Symphony ($333k).

Does CultureWorks Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as CultureWorks Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Tesco Foundation.

Where is CultureWorks Inc based?

CultureWorks Inc is based in VA.

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Virginia · Public charity

CultureWorks Inc

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

$566k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 15
Itemized grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $434k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $29,174
Largest grant, FY2025: $54,220
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 28; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $558k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations CultureWorks Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

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 & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	15	$434k	13%
FY2024	15	$368k	7%
FY2023	16	$380k	6%
FY2022	24	$559k	13%
FY2021	28	$439k	32%
FY2020	16	$412k	13%
FY2019	21	$469k	14%
FY2018	25	$386k	40%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.7MCommunity Improvement$32kPublic Benefit$30kYouth Development$18kCrime & Legal$10kSocial Science$10kCivil Rights$9kEducation$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Elegba Folklore Society Inc	$425,274	9	30%
The Valentine Museum	$398,388	9	2%
The Richmond Symphony	$332,862	7	1%
Virginia Repertory Theatre	$304,700	9	1%
Black History Museum & Clt Ctr	$286,619	9	6%
The Richmond Ballet	$286,365	9	1%
Virginia Historical Society	$280,621	9	0%
Children's Museum of Richmond	$240,405	9	1%
Virginia Opera Association Inc	$145,619	9	0%
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond	$134,128	9	1%

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All grantees of CultureWorks Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Elegba Folklore Society Inc	$425,274	9	30%
The Valentine Museum	$398,388	9	2%
The Richmond Symphony	$332,862	7	1%
Virginia Repertory Theatre	$304,700	9	1%
Black History Museum & Clt Ctr	$286,619	9	6%
The Richmond Ballet	$286,365	9	1%
Virginia Historical Society	$280,621	9	0%
Children's Museum of Richmond	$240,405	9	1%
Virginia Opera Association Inc	$145,619	9	0%
The Visual Arts Center of Richmond	$134,128	9	1%
Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Inc	$117,745	3	65%
Poe Foundation Inc	$89,734	9	3%
Richmond Jazz Society Inc	$86,167	9	13%
Robinson Theater Community Arts Center	$65,429	5	6%
Studio Two Three	$42,750	3	2%
Cadence Theatre Company Inc	$41,755	4	4%
Virginia Community Voice	$38,000	2	n/a
Ezibu Muntu African Dance Company	$35,300	2	n/a
1708 Gallery Inc	$30,700	4	2%
Latin Ballet of Virginia	$28,000	3	5%
Oakwood Arts Inc	$27,000	4	6%
The Firehouse Theatre Project Inc	$25,000	3	5%
Storefront for Community Design	$25,000	3	4%
Art For The Journey	$23,900	3	4%
Lamb Center for Arts and Healing	$22,750	2	8%
Dogtown Dance Theatre	$17,550	2	n/a
Hopewell Downtown Partnership Inc	$17,500	2	8%
Richmond Triangle Players Inc	$16,000	2	2%
Art on Wheels Nfp	$16,000	2	9%
Milk River Arts	$14,750	1	n/a
Podium RVA	$14,500	2	3%
Virginia Voice Inc	$13,000	2	2%
Stavna Ballet Inc	$12,650	2	n/a
Richmond Story House	$10,000	1	n/a
The Harps Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
James River Writers	$10,000	1	n/a
Embrace	$10,000	1	8%
Richmond Allied Voices Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Afrikana Institute	$10,000	1	n/a
Communities in Schools of Chesterfield	$10,000	1	2%
Groundwork Rva Inc	$9,912	1	4%
Shockoe Artspace Inc	$8,500	1	n/a
St John's Church Foundation	$8,300	1	1%
Greater Richmond Children's Choir	$7,500	1	13%
Openspace Education	$7,375	1	22%
Hanover Tavern Foundation	$6,591	1	1%
Virginia Center for Public Press	$5,500	1	4%
Virginia Community Voice Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Autism Society of Central Virginia Chapter Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Brown Ballerinas for Change	$5,000	1	n/a
Richmond Concert Band Society	$5,000	1	n/a
The Byrd Theatre Foundation	$5,000	1	1%

CultureWorks Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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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.

The Community Foundation IncVA69.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robins Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation

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.

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About CultureWorks Inc

How much does CultureWorks Inc give?: CultureWorks Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $434,093, out of $565,975 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does CultureWorks Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Community Improvement (1%), Public Benefit (1%).
Who are CultureWorks Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elegba Folklore Society Inc ($425k), The Valentine Museum ($398k), The Richmond Symphony ($333k).
Does CultureWorks Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as CultureWorks Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Tesco Foundation.
Where is CultureWorks Inc based?: CultureWorks Inc is based in VA.