Florida · Nonprofit
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc (Florida) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,991,581 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,735,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc does
Mission
To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County is the official support agency for arts and culture in Palm Beach County, Florida. As such, it provides grants to cultural organizations and creative professionals, advocates for arts and cultural funding, enhances local arts education, offers support services to foster growth in the cultural sector, and promotes cultural tourism. Funds for its grant programs and tourism marketing are largely derived from the county's bed tax, which the Council has managed for over 40 years. The Council's other programs and services are supported by private funds derived from donations and membership. (Continued on Schedule O)(Continued from page 2, Part III, line 4a) The Council's headquarters in Lake Worth Beach serves as a venue for gallery exhibitions and performances by artists who live or work in Palm Beach County, and includes a VISIT FLORIDA - designated Florida Certified Tourism Information Center and gift store with hand-crafted items by local artists. The Council is an active member of the South Florida Cultural Consortium and Florida Cultural Alliance.
$6,849,535 spentof which $1,396,917 as grants$36,866 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,849,535.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.3M to $4.9M (−6%).
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 64% · 2018 71% · 2019 77% · 2020 79% · 2021 82% · 2022 82% · 2023 86% · 2024 85% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Cultural Council of Palm Beach County 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. 6 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
David Lawrence
President and CEO
Board chair
Cheryl K Crowley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $307k → $435k.
5 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $43k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 65%; 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: 2017 35% · 2018 35% · 2019 38% · 2020 19% · 2021 62% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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
39% of Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
80% of Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $446k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
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 Cultural Council of Palm Beach County 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Cultural Council of Palm Beach County 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 Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc?
- Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc (Florida) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,991,581 to it, the largest being CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,735,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $4,991,581 in grants to Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc?
- CORNELIA T BAILEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,735,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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