· Private foundation
The Ovation Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 3Arts Inc | $25,000 |
| Streetlights Production Assistant Program Inc | $25,000 |
| Center for Creative Economy | $25,000 |
| Riverviews Artspace | $25,000 |
| Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship | $25,000 |
| Project H Design | $3,000 |
| New Orleans Video Access Center Inc | $3,000 |
| Juxtapostion Inc | $3,000 |
| The Storefront for Community Design | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds 3ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds STREETLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Global Center for Cultural Entrepre dba Creative Startups ↗
- Who funds Center for Creative Economy ↗
- Who funds JUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Storefront for Community Design ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GARAGE ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ovation Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ovation Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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