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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 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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $322,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $699,836 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $377,336 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 · 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
LUKE MADRIGAL INDIGENOUS STORYTELLING NONPROFIT$50,000
CUNAMACU (FISCALLY SPONSORED BY CUBACARIBE)$50,000
OMNIRA INSTITUTE$25,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WARRIORS CODE INC: $10k → 11%FLOWERS & BULLETS: $100k → 15%INDIGENOUS JUSTICE: $50k → 12%TRANSFORMING GENERATIONS: $50k → 14%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
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

MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 33% of The Center for Cultural Power’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Center for Cultural Powerlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +393% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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%
+11%

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
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

  • 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%
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.

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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
Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle

MAS activates and strengthens communities through art, raising awareness of the history and cultural contributions of Black Latinos for social change and racial equity.

Arts & Culture
6
Think Global Arts Foundation
International
7
The Conversationalist
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8
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
9
Art for Resistance Through Change

Raise awareness of social justice

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
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
12
Studio Atao
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truartspeaks; 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.
05the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 95 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
46/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherHISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · OtherFAST BLACKFEET: $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 ServicesIndigenous Justice: $50,000 · Human ServicesUNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG: $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 · HealthScalawag: $50,000 · EducationPegasus Media Project: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTRUARTSPEAKS: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetScalawag: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFAST BLACKFEET: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetIndigenous Justice: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCenter for Native Futures: $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRANSFORMING GENERATIONS TG: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetASOCIACION DE DOCUMENTALISTAS DE PR: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LUKE MADRIGAL STORYTELLING NON PROFI: $50,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetVOICES OF OUR NATIONS ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetYOUNG OF HEART WORKSHOP: $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetPAULI MURRAY CENTER FOR HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPegasus Media Project: $50,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetIndigenous Roots: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetREFORMING ARTS INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetCUBACARIBE: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTrucha: $50,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetOMNIRA INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetChicago Votes: $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $35,350 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDULCE UPFRONT LABS: $30,000 over 1y, 69% 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.

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

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 Cultural Power funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Center for Cultural Power. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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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