California · Nonprofit
Cultivating Creative Minds
Cultivating Creative Minds (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,024 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Cultivating Creative Minds does
Mission
The primary objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to promote creative programs for young people, partner with public schools to organize and execute enrichment programs that promote creative thinking, and to help public schools find and sustain funding for creative programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization facilitates an after-school enrichment program featuring instrumental classes, chorus classes, and guitar classes. The organization also partners with local elementary schools in order to schedule and provide standards based on music, dance, and visual arts instructions to students, as well as assisting in organizing music assemblies, art exhibitions, book readings, dance exhibitions, and a district-wide music concert each spring.
$43,110 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,110.
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 $43k to $9k (−79%).
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 Cultivating Creative Minds’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 9 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
Moira McCarty Lamb
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $5.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Cultivating Creative Minds’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
Cultivating Creative Minds leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Cultivating Creative Minds.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Cultivating Creative Minds draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24 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
Cultivating Creative Minds's revenue fell 95% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Cultivating Creative Minds
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cultivating Creative Minds: 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 Cultivating Creative Minds?
- Cultivating Creative Minds (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,024 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cultivating Creative Minds have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,024 in grants to Cultivating Creative Minds, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cultivating Creative Minds?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cultivating Creative Minds 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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