California · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER
THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER (California) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,680,171 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($11,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $47M
- Net assets
- $14M
What The Center for Cultural Power does
Mission
Artists transform the world through their powerful art: stories, images, and songs. The Center for Cultural Power exists to create a thriving ecosystem for artists and culture makers to shift worldviews away from domination and extraction toward collaboration and interdependence.The Center for Cultural Power mobilizes artists to envision a world in which cultural, economic, and political power are distributed equitably and where all human beings can live in harmony with nature. Cultural power is an artist-centered cultural strategy organization that promotes the artist as a key agent of social change and is committed to building their collective power. We center values-aligned artists in our cultural and narrative strategy work.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Field building: builds a field of values-aligned practitioners at the intersection of arts and social justice who create the narrative strategy needed to realize a more just and equitable world.
$2,946,482 spentof which $308,575 as grants$28,228 earned by the program44% of program spendingArtist leadership: builds the power of artists to advance social change through fellowships, cohorts, and workshops.
$2,155,191 spentof which $229,300 as grants$12,941 earned by the program32% of program spendingIntersectional storytelling: activates artists and movement groups to create inspiring stories on issues of migration, climate, civic, and gender justice that center directly impacted communities.
$1,546,512 spentof which $161,961 as grants$31,797 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,648,185.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.9M to $23M (+194%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 38% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Jeffrey Chang
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $5.2M.
15 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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: $126k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cultural Engagement Laboratory). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
40% 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 CULTURAL POWER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 42% · 2019 30% · 2020 9% · 2021 65% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% — 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
40% of THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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 CULTURAL POWER draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M 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 CULTURAL POWER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER?
- THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER (California) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,680,171 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($11,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $46,680,171 in grants to THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $11,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER 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 72 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