California · Public charity
The Center for Cultural Power
Artists transform the world through their powerful art: stories, images, and songs. THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER exists to create a thriving ecosystem for artists and culture makers to shift worldviews away from domination and extraction toward collaboration and interdependence.THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER mobilizes artists to envision…
- $700k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 97%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $323k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 97% of the organizations The Center for Cultural Power funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $323k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $2.9M | 97% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $85k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $40k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $734,677 | 4 | 1% |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | $449,798 | 2 | 2% |
| The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation | $210,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Robert Gumbiner Foundation | $125,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Continental Micronesia Inc Association of Pacific Island Legislatures Medic al Mission Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Fund for Global Human Rights Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Flowers and Bullets | $100,000 | 1 | 36% |
| ACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Colibri Center for Human Rights | $91,178 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 90 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Center for Cultural Power supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · The Ford Foundation · The California Endowment · WK Kellogg Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc
How this is measured
About The Center for Cultural Power
- How much does The Center for Cultural Power give?
- The Center for Cultural Power reported 6 itemized grants totaling $322,500, out of $699,836 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Center for Cultural Power fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are The Center for Cultural Power's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: NEO Philanthropy Inc ($735k), Allied Media Projects Inc ($450k), The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc ($250k).
- Does The Center for Cultural Power fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Center for Cultural Power?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, Tides Foundation.
- Where is The Center for Cultural Power based?
- The Center for Cultural Power is based in CA.
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