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The Center for Cultural Power

Artists transform the world through their powerful art: stories, images, and songs.

$700k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$3.5MArts & Culture$2.2MHuman Services$372kCivil Rights$328kHealth$245kPublic Benefit$183kEnvironment$155kEducation$153kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $322,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $699,836 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $377,336 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $298k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT GUMBINER FOUNDATION DBA PACIFIC ISLAND ETHNIC ART MUSEUM (FISCALLY S$75,000
SEEDS OF ANCESTRAL RENEWAL (SOAR) (FISCALLY SPONSORED BY SOL COLLECTIVE)$62,500
BAY AREA AMERICAN INDIAN TWO-SPIRITS (BAAITS) (FISCALLY SPONSORED BY SEVENT$60,000
CUNAMACU (FISCALLY SPONSORED BY CUBACARIBE)$50,000
LUKE MADRIGAL INDIGENOUS STORYTELLING NONPROFIT$50,000
OMNIRA INSTITUTE$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $316k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WARRIORS CODE INC: $10k → 11%FLOWERS & BULLETS: $100k → 15%TRANSFORMING GENERATIONS: $50k → 14%INDIGENOUS JUSTICE: $50k → 12%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $50k → 18%UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT: $50k → 14%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 33% of The Center for Cultural Power’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Center for Cultural Powerlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 4 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +393% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
82

Total granted

$1.3M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+393%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalOther

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

  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $735k · revenue +191%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $450k · revenue +393%
  • RG
    ROBERT GUMBINER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -56%
  • TW
    THE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $210k · revenue +52%
  • CM
    Continental Micronesia Inc Association of Pacific Island Legislatures Medic al Mission Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Artnoir Inc

ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…

Arts & Culture
2
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
—
3
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
4
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
—
5
Think Global Arts Foundation
International
6
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
7
The Conversationalist
—
8
Alternate RootsInc

Alternate Roots,Inc (ROOTS) was formed to meet the distinct needs of artists who work for social justice, and artists who create work by,for,about and within communities of place, tradition, affiliation and spirit.

Arts & Culture
9
Art for Resistance Through Change

Raise awareness of social justice

Arts & Culture
10
Indigenous Performance Productions

Indigenous Performance Productions was created with the mission to produce, promote, present, manage and advance education around Indigenous performing arts and artists. Indigenous Performance Productions was founded on the vision to…

Arts & Culture
11
The Oakland Institute

The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truartspeaks and the most unlike its peers is Anatolian Arts Institue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsLgbtq+ Community SupportFaith-Based Social ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Women & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%13%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%43%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/95
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,470

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.

05the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
43/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $2,250,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation IncTHE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NATHAN CUMMINGS FOUNDATION INCTHE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION — $210,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION+5 more — $177,438 · Philanthropy+5 moreALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $449,798 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom — $100,000 · Arts & CultureACORN Center For Restoratio…BORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTO CULTURAL ARTS — $65,000 · Arts & CultureDECIMANIA INC — $62,500 · Arts & CultureIndependent Arts & Media — $60,000 · Arts & CultureANANYA DANCE THEATRE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureNA KALAI WA'A — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more — $781,150 · Arts & Culture+22 moreNEO Philanthropy Inc — $734,677 · Public BenefitNEO Philant…+1 more — $6,000 · Public BenefitROBERT GUMBINER FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherROBERT GUMBINER FOU…COLIBRI CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $91,178 · OtherCOLIBRI CENTER FOR …YOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP — $50,000 · OtherSouthern Fried Queer Pride Inc — $60,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · OtherGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $90,000 · OtherGLOBAL GREENGRANTS …SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $50,000 · OtherFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $100,000 · OtherFUND FOR GLOBAL HUM…THE FREEDOM BOUND CENTER — $62,500 · OtherFAST BLACKFEET — $50,000 · OtherHISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $50,000 · Other+26 more — $491,574 · Other+26 moreFLOWERS AND BULLETS — $100,000 · Human ServicesSpirithouse South Inc — $65,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG — $50,000 · Human ServicesUNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesIndigenous Justice — $50,000 · Human Services+3 more — $25,881 · Human ServicesContinental Micronesia Inc Association of Pacific Island Legislatures Medic al Mission Foundation — $100,000 · HealthPaso del Norte Community Foundation — $50,000 · HealthTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA — $50,000 · HealthSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT — $20,000 · HealthPegasus Media Project — $50,000 · EducationScalawag — $50,000 · EducationOMNIRA INSTITUTE — $40,000 · EducationNOLLIE JENKINS FAMILY CENTER INCORPORATED — $25,000 · Education
Philanthropy$2,887,438Arts & Culture$1,788,448Public Benefit$740,677Other$1,270,252Human Services$390,881Health$220,000Education$165,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $2,250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $734,677 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $449,798 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE WILLIAM & FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT GUMBINER FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetContinental Micronesia Inc Association of Pacific Island Legislatures Medic al Mission Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFLOWERS AND BULLETS — $100,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom — $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $90,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSURDNA FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBORDERLANDS THEATER TEATRO FRONTERIZO INC — $75,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $71,557 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpirithouse South Inc — $65,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSAN ANTO CULTURAL ARTS — $65,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetDECIMANIA INC — $62,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE FREEDOM BOUND CENTER — $62,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media — $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern Fried Queer Pride Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetANANYA DANCE THEATRE — $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNA KALAI WA'A — $60,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetPAULI MURRAY CENTER FOR HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LUKE MADRIGAL STORYTELLING NON PROFI — $50,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetTRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG — $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP — $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCUBACARIBE — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTrucha — $50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetPegasus Media Project — $50,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET — $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetIndigenous Roots — $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTRUARTSPEAKS — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOICES OF OUR NATIONS ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetREFORMING ARTS INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetASOCIACION DE DOCUMENTALISTAS DE PR — $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIndigenous Justice — $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetScalawag — $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCenter for Native Futures — $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetChicago Votes — $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOMNIRA INSTITUTE — $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE TANK LTD — $35,350 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDULCE UPFRONT LABS — $30,000 over 1y, 69% of budget
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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationCommon Counsel Founda…The Andrew W Mellon F…Borealis PhilanthropyThe Ford FoundationThe California Endowm…WK Kellogg FoundationThe William & Flora H…Hispanics in Philanth…Wellspring Philanthro…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC69.1× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Center for Cultural Power 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines