Kentucky · Nonprofit
CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC
CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,744,484 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $467k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $495k
What Creative Agents of Change Foundation Inc does
Mission
Creative agents of change foundation, inc. Uses the art of storytelling and community collaboration to impact health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
(un)known project unearths and honors the names and stories of enslaved black people in america and the global african diaspora. We support learning, healing, and reconciliation through the creation of artistic spaces and experiences.
$417,928 spent83% of program spendingActivities completed involving arts and health collaborations with lead free louisville, lead safe louisville and metro united way.
$88,419 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $506,347.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $121k to $621k (+412%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2024 16% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC’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. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $28k → $204k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC’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
CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
35% 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 CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 71% · 2019 53% · 2020 76% · 2021 60% · 2022 51% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
43% of CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $335k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$335k
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 CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC: 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 CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC?
- CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,744,484 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,744,484 in grants to CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE AGENTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 18 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