New York · Nonprofit
CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION
CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,509,517 to it, the largest being THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ($18,389,280). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Creative Capital Foundation does
Mission
Creative capital supports individual artists' projects through awards and career development services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy25 creative capital funded a new cohort of 50 awardee projects. The organization continued to invest in multi-year relationships with artists who were awardees in past years. Creative capital continues to provide non-monetary support to awardees in the form of consultations and meetings at key moments in the lives of the funded projects by assisting with planning, marketing and distribution. In fy25, the organization continued to provide a skills building program free of cost for creative capital awardees and non-awardee artists. Also in fy25, creative capital hosted a two day in-person community building event for awardees, donors and industry consultants with 338 participants. The arts writers grant program made 30 new grants to arts writers and continued work on their pamphlet series, "cookie jar."
$6,232,319 spentof which $3,379,081 as grants$23,700 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,232,319.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $9.1M to $13M (+40%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Reginald Browne
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $343k → $4.3M.
20 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CAPITAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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 CAPITAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 44% · 2019 17% · 2020 68% · 2021 56% · 2022 71% · 2023 69% — 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
33% of CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
93% of CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 CAPITAL FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $230k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$230k
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 CAPITAL FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: 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 CAPITAL FOUNDATION?
- CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,509,517 to it, the largest being THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ($18,389,280). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $28,509,517 in grants to CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION?
- THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,389,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 58 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing