New York · Nonprofit
CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION
CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,200 to it, the largest being THE PALMER FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $163k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $173k
What Creative Waves Foundation does
Mission
The organization's over all goal is to support aspiring musicians in their pursuit of artistic fulfillment by harnessing the transformational power of music and music education by helping to eliminate financial challenges young artists face so they can reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Phase 1 developments for the belle glades enrichment center
$0 spentof which $33,956 as grantsRaised money for a food drive
$0 spentof which $22,000 as grantsFor urban promise summer camp food grant
$0 spentof which $15,000 as grants
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $32k to $198k (+528%).
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.
97% of CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Alexandra Tamposi
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $25k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 WAVES FOUNDATION’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 WAVES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 86% · 2022 68% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 WAVES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CREATIVE WAVES 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE WAVES 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 WAVES FOUNDATION?
- CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,200 to it, the largest being THE PALMER FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $59,200 in grants to CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE WAVES FOUNDATION?
- THE PALMER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE WAVES 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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