California · Nonprofit
CRAFTING THE FUTURE
CRAFTING THE FUTURE (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,500 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($180,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $469k
- Net assets
- $166k
What Crafting the Future does
Mission
At Crafting the Future (ctf), our mission is to increase access to creative enrichment for black and brown artists by connecting them to opportunities that help them thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarship: Crafting the Future (ctf) provides emerging, mid-career, and established artists of color with opportunities that help plant their roots in the craft community and propel their careers. A ctf scholarship includes tuition, room and board, travel, materials, a stipend, and a per diem. We aim to eliminate any financial barrier that might stand between a learner and their workshop. We also partner with youth arts organizations around the country to help us identify scholarship recipients, based not on their portfolios and writing skills, but rather on the potential for impact. To date, weve served artists from ages 15-68, and we look forward to expanding that range. And all of the schools we partner with match or subsidize our scholarship funds. So for every scholarship we raise money for, a partnering school augments it, increasing our offerings and proving their own commitment to these efforts.
$263,635 spentof which $82,853 as grants75% of program spendingResidency: we support multiple residency programs that aim to provide established and emerging artists with time and space to create. Our biggest residency program is in our home base studio in los angeles. The 2020 los angeles artist census found that around 50% of black and latinx artists surveyed have no studio, while only 24% of white respondents lacked studio space, despite white non-hispanic people making up only 28.5% of the la population. The need for a program like ours is undeniable. For the past four years, the residency program has supported emerging bipoc artists in los angeles by offering free studio space, a material stipend, and an all- expenses-paid one- or two-week workshop at an art/craft school. This year we have extended the length of the residency from 6 months to one year and the proposed expansion in 2025 would increase the number of artists from two to four, increase the stipend from 4000 to 6000, and bring in additional short-term visiting artists.
$73,998 spentof which $73,998 as grants$26,562 earned by the program21% of program spendingInternship: internships support emerging artists who have a passion for their craft and would benefit from additional guidance on how to monetize it. Ctf programs provide interns with technical instruction, time and space to develop an artistic vision, and networking opportunities. In addition, ctf internships set the precedent of paying artists to work, which is an opportunity often not available for emerging artists.
$13,094 spentof which $13,094 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,727.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $190k to $174k (−8%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of CRAFTING THE FUTURE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Che Rhodes
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CRAFTING THE FUTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CRAFTING THE FUTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CRAFTING THE FUTURE.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
CRAFTING THE FUTURE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CRAFTING THE FUTURE is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding CRAFTING THE FUTURE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CRAFTING THE FUTURE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRAFTING THE FUTURE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRAFTING THE FUTURE?
- CRAFTING THE FUTURE (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,500 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($180,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRAFTING THE FUTURE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $468,500 in grants to CRAFTING THE FUTURE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRAFTING THE FUTURE?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRAFTING THE FUTURE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing