California · Nonprofit
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 248 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,021,520 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,945,375). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 248
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Creative Visions Foundation does
Mission
Creating awareness of critical issues and promoting positive action through media and the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Creative visions fiscal sponsorship program supports filmmakers, artists, and social entrepreneursknown as creative activistswhose projects use media and the arts to drive social impact. The program provides fiduciary oversight and tax-deductible donation processing to projects operating domestically and internationally. In 2024, fiscally sponsored projects collectively raised over $13 million to advance education, human rights, environmental protection, and community development initiatives worldwide.
$13,467,005 spent87% of program spendingStudents rebuild program: creative visions students rebuild program engages youth globally to learn about and take action on critical humanitarian, environmental, and social issues through creative expression. Each art project submitted by participating students unlocks a matching donation from philanthropic partners. In 2024, over 120,000 students and educators in 80 countries created 600,000 artworks, generating $1.2 million in matching funds for nonprofit partners advancing education, mental health, and climate resilience.
$1,441,891 spent9% of program spendingEducation programs, network and events:creative visions network and events connects and inspires the creative community through gatherings of up to 100 and screenings of up to 70, with 13 events in 2024. Its #createconnectcare campaign engages youth in creative expression around mental healthdrawing over 3,000 participants ages 1118 from all 50 states and 37 countries. The changemaker series provides educational tools that empower students and educators to collaborate through creativity for positive social change.
$636,234 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,545,130.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.0M to $7.8M (+282%).
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 3% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% 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
Patricia Chandler
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $7.1M.
54 of 248 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 VISIONS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 248 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 VISIONS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
63% 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 VISIONS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 25% · 2019 20% · 2020 31% · 2021 20% · 2022 45% · 2023 32% — 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
21% of CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION'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
57% of CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $19M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside California, across 31 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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 VISIONS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
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 VISIONS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE VISIONS 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 VISIONS FOUNDATION?
- CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 248 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,021,520 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,945,375). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 248 organizations giving $45,021,520 in grants to CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,945,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 248 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