CREATIVE GROWTH INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

E52Z

Classification

2000

Street

355 24TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

• STUDIO PROGRAMCreative Growth provides artists with developmental disabilities with a vibrant studio environment. The 12,000 square foot studio offers programs in ceramics, woodworking, digital media, drawing, fiber arts and fashion, painting, printmaking, and textiles, all offered free of charge to artists, supplies included.Artists are referred to our program through the California Department of Developmental Services regional centers and participate in multiple site visits to the studio to gauge their level of interest in making art. Creative Growth artists (aged 22-88) are racially and ethnically diverse and speak seven languages, including finger-spelling and American Sign Language.Studio Facilitators, all practicing artists, foster the professional development of each Creative Growth artists unique artistic voice, and every artist decides when work is finished, what work is gallery ready, and how they want their work presented to the public.

  Expenses $1,757,079 · Revenue $1,040,581

• CREATIVE GROWTHS GALLERYThe Creative Growth Gallery exhibits and promotes Creative Growth artists by placing their work in major collections and institutions worldwide. As a non-profit gallery, all artwork sales directly support the artists and Creative Growth, which uses the proceeds to purchase materials and keep the program running.The Gallery Hosted five major exhibitions, including The Home Show (curated by Noz Nozawa) and John Martin: Self-Portrait. The Gallery team also represents Creative Growths 140+ artists at national and international art fairs annually. In 2023/2024 artists were represented at Felix (Los Angeles), Material Fair (Mexico City), Outsider (New York), Fog Art Fair (San Francisco), NADA (Miami), Independent Art Fair (New York). Artwork made at Creative Growth has also been acquired by prominent collections worldwide, including MoMA, SFMOMA, the Smithsonian, the Studio Museum of Harlem.The Gallery also provides professional development for artists, including curating exhibits in the gallery and in the community. One highlight is the Blue Sky exhibit curated by Creative Growths Black Artist group at East Bay Municipal Utilities District Gallery. The groundbreaking exhibition featured art by over 20 Black Creative Growth artists with disabilities, exploring themes of resilience, identity, and freedom.

  Expenses $946,119

• CREATIVE GROWTH'S 5TH ANNUAL CREATING COMMUNITY SYMPOSIUMIn May of 2024, we celebrated 50 years of art and advocacy with the 5th Annual Creating Community Symposium, a four-day event in Oakland and San Francisco that brought together artists, advocates, and changemakers.Held in our hometown of Oakland and at SFMOMA, the symposium offered inspiring, educational, and connective experiences that explored the past, present, and future of art and inclusion. Attendees engaged in dynamic conversations, celebrated the achievements of artists with disabilities, and contributed to shaping a more inclusive art world.The symposium honored CGs legacy of empowerment while driving dialogue around creativity and accessibility, underscoring our mission to create a future where art knows no limits.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,256,571

  Expenses

  $3,997,131

  Contributions

  $1,109,402

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,413,079

  Expenses

  $3,056,556

  Contributions

  $732,412

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,404,241

  Expenses

  $2,641,849

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,364,342

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,810,792

  Expenses

  $2,760,219

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,781,647

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,828,188

  Expenses

  $2,472,224

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,770,568

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,765,436

  Expenses

  $2,421,060

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,026,660

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,466,309

  Expenses

  $2,317,117

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,661,129

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,091,868

  Expenses

  $2,105,932

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,362,574

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,100,603

  Expenses

  $2,108,514

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,339,629

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,014,994

  Expenses

  $2,004,894

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,337,233

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,707,265

  Expenses

  $1,838,577

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,308,857

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,715,621

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,369,213

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $69,000

  2023 · FOR THE "WALK AND ROLL" FUNDRAISER. FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $68,500

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $38,150

  2024 · HEALTH

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $37,100

  2023 · HEALTH

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2024 · FOR GENERAL AND PROJECT SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $29,458

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $27,450

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $25,500

  2024 · HEALTH

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $25,500

  2023 · Health

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2024 · Health

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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