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The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc

To resource, catalyze, and amplify how and why craft matters.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$66k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEmploymentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$66k86%
FY20241$11k0%
FY20232$15k100%
FY20225$41k100%
FY20215$41k80%
FY20206$48k83%
FY20193$32k100%
FY20184$28k100%
100% 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$159kScience & Tech$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEducation$42kEmployment$11kPublic Benefit$7k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Museum of Arts and Design$24,5002n/a
Columbus Museum of Art$16,50020%
Museum of Arts and Design$14,60320%
Craft Contemporary$12,54820%
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation$10,50010%
American Museum of Ceramic Art$10,50011%
State University of Iowa$10,5001n/a
The George Washington University$10,50010%
Flow LLC$10,0001n/a
Ambos Project$10,0001n/a
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Museum of Arts and Design$24,5002n/a
Columbus Museum of Art$16,50020%
Museum of Arts and Design$14,60320%
Craft Contemporary$12,54820%
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation$10,50010%
American Museum of Ceramic Art$10,50011%
State University of Iowa$10,5001n/a
The George Washington University$10,50010%
Flow LLC$10,0001n/a
Ambos Project$10,0001n/a
Related Tactics Collective$10,0001n/a
Horse and Hero$10,0001n/a
Toe River Crafts$10,0001n/a
Foundation Woodworks LLC$10,0001n/a
Planet Art LLC$10,0001n/a
The Clay Studio$9,6601n/a
Minnesota Center for Book Arts$9,45011%
Museum of Fine Arts$8,17610%
Trustees of Eliot School$7,50010%
Kismet Collaborative LLC$7,3501n/a
Geex Inc$7,35019%
The New School$7,00010%
Cornell University$7,00010%
National Ornamental Metal Museum Inc$7,00010%
Syracuse University$7,00010%
Museum of Craft and Design$7,0001n/a
Portland Museum of Art$7,00010%
Soft Monitor LLC$7,0001n/a
Arcadia University$7,00010%
The Marks Project Inc$7,00014%
Cranbrook Educational Community$5,60010%
Indiana University School of Medicine$5,2501n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$5,0681n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColumbus Museum of Art: $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Arts and Design: $14,603 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCraft Contemporary: $12,548 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMexican American Opportunity Foundation: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Ceramic Art: $10,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Center for Book Arts: $9,450 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $8,176 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Eliot School: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGeex Inc: $7,350 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetThe New School: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Ornamental Metal Museum Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSyracuse University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArcadia University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marks Project Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCranbrook Educational Community: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 18.

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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.

Windgate Charitable Foundation IncAR15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc

How much does The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc give?
The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $65,950, out of $1,557,242 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Science & Tech (17%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%).
Who are The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Arts and Design ($25k), Columbus Museum of Art ($17k), Museum of Arts and Design ($15k).
Does The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc based?
The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc is based in NC.

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 35 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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