· Private foundation
The Ovation Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship | $25,000 |
| Riverviews Artspace | $25,000 |
| Streetlights Production Assistant Program Inc | $25,000 |
| Center for Creative Economy | $25,000 |
| 3Arts Inc | $25,000 |
| The Storefront for Community Design | $3,000 |
| Project H Design | $3,000 |
| Juxtapostion Inc | $3,000 |
| New Orleans Video Access Center Inc | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
We make art and careers in creative industries accessible to all through community engagement, inspiring programming, and experiential education. Our programs focus on the digital and technical skills students need to succeed in the…
Education/Support/Services for Artists The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) was launched in 2001 to promote knowledge sharing, networking and financial independence for individual artists and creative entrepreneurs by providing…
EQUITY ARTS is a center for the creative economy that advances racial equity and wealth-building for artists and entrepreneurs. This reparative ownership model preserves space for synergistic exchanges between value-aligned partners. The…
To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.
ArtBuilt is a solutions-focused nonprofit that builds new systems of support for artists based on access to affordable real estate, asset building and deeply reciprocal relationships with local communities.
Verge Center for the Arts provides contemporary art and art resources to the Sacramento region through a combination of exhibitions, low or no cost artist workspace, and educational programming.Located in Sacramento's Southside Park…
We envision the charlottesville area as a place where a thriving group of local artists unsettles and transforms our community to work toward a more just, beautiful future.
BRIDGEGOOD increases opportunity and digital literacy for under-resourced students with a focus on Black Indigenous and Women People of Color. We prepare first-generation college students for careers in UX UI and Visual Design while…
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
Arts education and vocational guidance.
COVEN is a creative placemaker that advances socioeconomic mobility for underrepresented artists through storytelling, funding, and activations in Third Places. COVEN is supported by ThirdPlace Partners (TPP), a fractional real estate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Center for Cultural Entrepre dba Creative Startups and the most unlike its peers is Storefront for Community Design. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Center for Creative Economy ↗
- Who funds STREETLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Global Center for Cultural Entrepre dba Creative Startups ↗
- Who funds 3ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Storefront for Community Design ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GARAGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ovation Foundation 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.
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.
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