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The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc

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

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$159kScience & Tech$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEducation$42kEmployment$11kPublic Benefit$7k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $65,950, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,557,242 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,491,292 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOE RIVER CRAFTS$10,000
FOUNDATION WOODWORKS LLC$10,000
FLOW LLC$10,000
PLANET ART LLC$10,000
HORSE AND HERO$10,000
AMBOS PROJECT$10,000
MUSEUM OF ARTS & DESIGN$5,950
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $8k → 16%MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS: $9k → 11%Arcadia University: $7k → 7%The Clay Studio: $10k → 22%Soft Monitor LLC: $7k → 10%RELATED TACTICS COLLECTIVE: $10k → 10%Mexican American Opportunity Foundation: $11k → 14%Syracuse University: $7k → 14%Cornell University: $7k → 16%The New School: $7k → 17%University of Iowa: $11k → 15%GEEX INC: $7k → 10%Marks Project Inc: $7k → 9%NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM: $7k → 17%PLANET ART LLC: $10k → 12%TOE RIVER CRAFTS: $10k → 15%FLOW LLC: $10k → 15%Indiana University: $5k → 18%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $11k → 15%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $11k → 4%Virginia Polytechnic Institute: $9k → 21%KISMET COLLABORATIVE LLC: $7k → 13%Portland Museum of Art: $7k → 7%ELIOT SCHOOL OF FINE & APPLIED ARTS: $8k → 16%Museum of Craft and Design: $7k → 10%AMBOS PROJECT: $10k → 14%Museum of Arts and Design: $14k → 17%HORSE AND HERO: $10k → 12%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $6k → 15%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART: $11k → 14%Museum of Arts and Design: $11k → 17%FOUNDATION WOODWORKS LLC: $10k → 12%Craft and Folk Art Museum: $7k → 14%MUSEUM OF ARTS & DESIGN: $9k → 17%CRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $6k → 14%MUSEUM OF ARTS & DESIGN: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
LA
GA
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 4 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
25

Total granted

$68k
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-24%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MO
    Museum of Arts and Design
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k
  • CM
    COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue -31%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN
    2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • MA
    Mexican American Opportunity Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +131%
  • AM
    AMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +20%
  • SU
    State University of Iowa
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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.

1
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
2
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
3
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
4
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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9
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Museum of Art; the most unlike its peers is Mexican American Opportunity Foundation. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Museum of Arts and Design: $24,500 · OtherMuseum of Arts and DesignState University of Iowa: $10,500 · OtherState University of IowaFLOW LLC: $10,000 · OtherFLOW LLCAMBOS PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherAMBOS PROJECTRelated Tactics Collective: $10,000 · OtherRelated Tactics CollectiveHORSE AND HERO: $10,000 · OtherHORSE AND HEROTOE RIVER CRAFTS: $10,000 · OtherTOE RIVER CRAFTSFOUNDATION WOODWORKS LLC: $10,000 · OtherFOUNDATION WOODWORKS LLCPLANET ART LLC: $10,000 · OtherPLANET ART LLCThe Clay Studio: $9,660 · OtherThe Clay StudioVirginia Polytechnic Institute: $8,750 · OtherVirginia Polytechnic InstituteTRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherKISMET COLLABORATIVE LLC: $7,350 · OtherSoft Monitor LLC: $7,000 · OtherUnified Government of Athens: $6,650 · Other+2 more: $10,318 · Other+2 moreCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $16,500 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ARTMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $14,603 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGNCRAFT CONTEMPORARY: $12,548 · Arts & CultureCRAFT CONTEMPORARYAMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART: $10,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ARTMINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS: $9,450 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTSMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $8,176 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSGEEX INC: $7,350 · Arts & CultureGEEX INCNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INCMuseum of Craft and Design: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Craft and DesignPortland Museum of Art: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Museum of ArtTHE MARKS PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARKS PROJECT INCThe George Washington University: $10,500 · EducationThe George Wash…The New School: $7,000 · EducationThe New SchoolCornell University: $7,000 · EducationCornell Univers…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVER…ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationARCADIA UNIVERS…CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $5,600 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCA…Mexican American Opportunity Foundation: $10,500 · Employment
Other$162,228Arts & Culture$107,127Education$44,100Employment$10,500

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

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
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.

Windgate Charitable F…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Eliot School: 2% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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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