Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY
CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,100 to it, the largest being CITIZENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY has grown faster than half of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Lancaster County Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- WC and EJ Thornton Foundationportfolio match
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
0% of CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY’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 PURSUITS ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Lancaster County Community Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 457 organizations near you
- WC and EJ Thornton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Columbus Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Genesis Inspiration Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equity in the Arts Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norman Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Equity & Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lane Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Shore Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 PURSUITS ACADEMY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY?
- CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,100 to it, the largest being CITIZENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,100 in grants to CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY?
- CITIZENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE PURSUITS ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing