New York · Nonprofit
CREATIVE TIME INC
CREATIVE TIME INC (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,570,183 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,718,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Creative Time Inc does
Mission
Creative time commissions, produces and presents temporary public arts projects.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
R&d fellowship the creative time r&d (research & development) fellowship, is a program designed to support interdisciplinary research and development of projects from five established artists with a track record in socially engaged art. The program acts as a catalyst for an artist with a well-defined concept, perhaps already underway, and connects them to an interdisciplinary network of collaborators and advisers to develop their work in the public realm at a meaningful depth or scale. Creative time provides access to an interdisciplinary group of advisors relevant to each proposed project to support project research and initiate collaborations. The r&d fellowship is facilitated by creative time's curator r&d fellowship. The creative time r&d (research & development) fellowship, is a program designed to support interdisciplinary research and development of projects from five established artists with a track record in socially engaged art. The program acts as a catalyst for an artist with a well-defined concept, perhaps already underway, and connects them to an interdisciplinary network of collaborators and advisers to develop their work in the public realm at a meaningful depth or…
$2,077,702 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,077,702.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $4.0M (+118%).
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 9% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
114% of CREATIVE TIME INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Chief executive
Justine Ludwig
Executive director
Board chair
Jon Neidich
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $249k → $2.7M.
11 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $908k from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CREATIVE TIME INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CREATIVE TIME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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 TIME INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
32% 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 TIME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 43% · 2019 32% · 2020 20% · 2021 19% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% — 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
51% of CREATIVE TIME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
85% of CREATIVE TIME INC'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. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 TIME INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CREATIVE TIME INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $175k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$175k
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 TIME 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 TIME 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 TIME INC?
- CREATIVE TIME INC (New York) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,570,183 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,718,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE TIME INC have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $11,570,183 in grants to CREATIVE TIME INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE TIME INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,718,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE TIME INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 87 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