· Public charity
CultureWorks Inc
CultureWorks is committed to its mission: strengthening artists and arts and culture organizations to increase their impact in our region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $434,093 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $565,975 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $131,882 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
- $10k–50k13 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Elegba Folklore Society Inc | $54,220 |
| The Richmond Symphony | $51,110 |
| The Valentine | $47,181 |
| Black History Museum | $39,757 |
| Virginia Repertory Theatre | $37,032 |
| Richmond Ballet | $34,413 |
| Virginia Museum of History & Culture | $33,758 |
| Children's Museum of Richmond | $29,174 |
| Studio Two Three | $20,000 |
| Virginia Opera | $18,370 |
| Visual Arts Center of Richmond | $17,060 |
| Edgar Allan Poe Museum | $16,840 |
| Richmond Jazz Society Inc | $15,178 |
| Richmond Allied Voices | $10,000 |
| James River Writers | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- EFELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +38% · 30% of their budget
- TVTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $398k · revenue +176%
- TRTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY7× · 2017–2023 · $333k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- MRMILK RIVER ARTSone grant, 2022 · $15k
- THTHE HARPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -52%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +227%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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,…
Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
We produce vital works of classical and contemporary theatre, with Shakespeare as our foundation. We approach this work boldly with a resolve to ignite spirits, educate minds and defy expectation.
Creating live community theatre experiences that engage, entertain, educate, and enlighten.
To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.
To inspire and enrich the community by offering exceptional cultural performances, classes and visual arts exhibits.
arts organization
OCA is a nonprofit organization that provides a space for BIPOC Deaf, DeafBlind, Deaf+, and Hard of Hearing artists to collectively create, collaborate & showcase their culturally distinct work while addressing social justice and racial…
Shape the cultural life of our region by delivering exceptional, inclusive music experiences that enrich, entertain and educate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Visual Arts Center of Richmond and the most unlike its peers is Openspace Education. 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 23 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
44 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. 44 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM & CLT CTR ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds POE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND JAZZ SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds STUDIO TWO THREE ↗
- Who funds CADENCE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds 1708 Gallery Inc ↗
- Who funds Latin Ballet of Virginia ↗
- Who funds Oakwood Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Storefront for Community Design ↗
- Who funds THE FIREHOUSE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Art For The Journey ↗
- Who funds LAMB CENTER FOR ARTS AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds DOGTOWN DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ART ON WHEELS NFP ↗
- Who funds Richmond Triangle Players Inc ↗
- Who funds Podium RVA ↗
- Who funds Virginia Voice Inc ↗
- Who funds STAVNA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND ALLIED VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE ↗
- Who funds James River Writers ↗
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.
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
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 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.
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.