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.

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.

$566k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$54k

Largest

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

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 15 grants below total $434,093, the rows itemized in this filing. The $565,975 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $131,882 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

$10k–50k13 grants · $329k
$50k–250k2 grants · $105k

$29,174

Median grant

States reached

$558k

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (FY17–18, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.6M · 32 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+51%

Still filing today

88%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentOther

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

EF
ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +38% · 30% of their budget
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THE VALENTINE MUSEUM
9× · 2017–2025 · $398k · revenue +176%
TR
THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY
7× · 2017–2023 · $333k · revenue +44%

Funded once

MR
MILK RIVER ARTS
one grant, 2022 · $15k
RS
RICHMOND STORY HOUSE
one grant, 2018 · $10k
TH
THE HARPS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -52%

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.

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

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

Richmond Shakespeare

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.

Arts & Culture

Riverviews

Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.

Arts & Culture

Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture

Richmond Civic Theatre Inc

Creating live community theatre experiences that engage, entertain, educate, and enlighten.

Arts & Culture

Charlottesville Writing Center Inc

arts organization

Arts & Culture

Richmond Art Center

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

Arts & Culture

The Cultural Arts Center At Glen Allen Foundation

To inspire and enrich the community by offering exceptional cultural performances, classes and visual arts exhibits.

Arts & Culture

Visionaries of the Creative Arts

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…

Arts & Culture

Richmond Symphony Orchestra

Shape the cultural life of our region by delivering exceptional, inclusive music experiences that enrich, entertain and educate.

Arts & Culture

Academy of Richmond County

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Visual Arts Center of Richmond; 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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/44

Grantees still filing

31/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$3,282,082Other$281,717Education$158,628Community Improvement$32,412Employment$27,000Human Services$23,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization CultureWorks Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from CultureWorks Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home