North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC
THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,665,136 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,332,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $16M
What The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc does
Mission
To resource, catalyze, and amplify how and why craft matters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Schedule 0 (period july 1, 2024 - june 30, 2025) the center for craft is currently engaged in a strategic plan titled craft matters (2023-2027), at its heart is the vision of a culture where communities celebrate and embrace the centrality of craft in everyday life. The center for craft supports the preservation and innovation of craft by providing grants and fellowships that offer funding, networks, and peer- to-peer learning nationwide; exhibitions in our downtown asheville gallery that illuminate 21st-century practices of craft; and public programs that tell the story of how and why craft matters. The center for craft's grant programs are keystones in developing the national craft ecosystem, supporting emerging and established craft artists, scholars, educators, and organizations nationwide. In fy25, the center received 2,137 grant applications and awarded 941 grants totaling 1,982,748. Now permanently endowed, the center for craft's windgate-lamar fellowship has awarded 2.985 million to 199 emerging craft artists with exemplary skills in craft since the program's inception. In the past year, the center has successfully implemented a regular schedule of grants, exhibitions, and…
$2,945,048 spentof which $1,557,242 as grants$5,249 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,945,048.
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 2018 to 2019, from $6.5M to $14M (+114%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 9% · 2020 52% · 2021 4% · 2022 6% · 2023 2% · 2024 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $38k → $623k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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: $4.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cccd Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC’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
THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 43% · 2019 59% · 2020 41% · 2021 47% · 2022 60% · 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $101k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$71k
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Cccd Properties LLC · disregarded
- Cccd Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN 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 THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC?
- THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,665,136 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,332,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,665,136 in grants to THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,332,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR CRAFT CREATIVITY & DESIGN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 30 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