Florida · Nonprofit
CREATIVE PINELLAS INC
CREATIVE PINELLAS INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,593,441 to it, the largest being Richard O Jacobson Foundation ($2,500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $417k
What Creative Pinellas Inc does
Mission
Creative pinellas is the designated local arts agency for pinellas county, supporting regional artists, arts organizations, and arts tourism. We are an indispensable resource and arts advocate for the entire county and offer services and programs to promote and support the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our programs to serve visitors and residents included grants for professional artists, hurricane relief funding for artists and cultural institutions, and a collaborative effort with the tourism agency board to utilize artists to promote pinellas county after hurricanes helene and milton. We opened sightline gallery in pinellas county's only public airport, showcasing pinellas county artistry to the airport's 2.5 million passengers annually. Our public arts program is responsible for murals in the lealman cra, an underserved part of pinellas county, and multiple public art pieces in municipalities throughout pinellas county. We hosted public, educational workshops and artist focus groups centered on the cultural needs of pinellas county. We finalized a countywide cultural plan, through research and multiple in-person interviews with stakeholders, elected officials, and the staff/leadership of cultural institutions.
$942,334 spentof which $292,280 as grants80% of program spendingOur digital presence and publications provide in-depth arts and artist explorations and event coverage. For our tourism partners, and we began the creation of a tourism development event featuring a countywide celebration of artists and cultural institutions. This month-long activation of art experiences includes a st. Pete museum week, a collaboration with clearwater sister cities for a lantern festival, and performances, exhibitions, theatre, and public art in parks, beaches, and locations throughout pinellas county. This program, called art everywhere, will be a collaboration with visit st. Pete clearwater and will feature a large scale promotion campaign during the tourism "shoulder" season, boosting awareness of the vibrancy of the pinellas county arts and cultural landscape. Those we serve include artists from emerging to established professionals, arts organizations, businesses and tourism partners, residents and visitors, supporters, and volunteers.
$141,350 spent12% of program spendingWe curated exhibits year-round in our 10,000 square foot gallery space where we offer free programming by renowned artists, pinellas county professional artists, emerging artists, community arts organizations, and by performing artists. We are equally focused on programming by and for audiences and artists who historically have had more limited access to the arts.
$94,233 spent$6,344 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,177,917.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $3.1M to $968k (−69%).
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: 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 92% · 2024 86% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CREATIVE PINELLAS INC’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. 4 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Margaret Murray
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $30k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 PINELLAS 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 PINELLAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of CREATIVE PINELLAS INC's funders are still giving 2 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 PINELLAS INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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 PINELLAS INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CREATIVE PINELLAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $605k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$605k
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 PINELLAS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE PINELLAS 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 PINELLAS INC?
- CREATIVE PINELLAS INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,593,441 to it, the largest being Richard O Jacobson Foundation ($2,500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE PINELLAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,593,441 in grants to CREATIVE PINELLAS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE PINELLAS INC?
- Richard O Jacobson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE PINELLAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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