Cultural Council of Palm Beach
Lake Worth Beach, FL · EIN 59-1862336. Reported 116 grants totalling $1,960,494 to 54 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Cultural Council of Palm Beach, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A260) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 93% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $14,362. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,850; the smallest was $3,275 and the largest $65,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milagro Foundation Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $123,810 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Digital Vibez Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $107,818 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Aequalis Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $84,645 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Resource Depot Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $84,529 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts Inc | Lk Worth Bch, FL | $77,552 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| ARTS4ALL Florida | Tampa, FL | $68,644 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boynton Cultural Centre Inc | Boynton Beach, FL | $67,574 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Delray Beach Arts Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $67,093 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Center for Creative Education | West Palm Bch, FL | $65,004 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Youth Orchestras of Palm Beach County Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $63,937 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nat King Cole Generation Hope Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $63,168 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Sandoway House Nature Center Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $56,986 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Spady Cultural Heritage Museum Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $53,670 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Audubon Society of the Everglades | West Palm Bch, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc | Mangonia Park, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Middle School of the Arts Foundation Inc | N Palm Beach, FL | $48,323 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach Inc | Palm Beach, FL | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dance Theater of Florida Inc | Palm Beach Gardens, FL | $41,304 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Habilitation Center for the Handicapped Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $37,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Delray Beach Chorale Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $32,382 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boca Raton Philarmonic Symphonia | Boca Raton, FL | $28,284 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc | Jupiter, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Norton Museum of Art Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Singers of the Palm Beaches Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival Inc | Jupiter, FL | $21,844 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lighthouse Artcenter Inc | Jupiter, FL | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Creative City Collaborative of Delray Beach Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc | Juno Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| School of the Arts Foundation Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Armory Art Center Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elevar Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $15,123 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fiesta De Pueblo Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Historical Society of Palm Beach County | West Palm Bch, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Street Painting Festival | Lake Worth Beach, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Palm Beach Opera Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue Planet Global Education Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $12,018 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lake Worth Cultural Renaissance Foundation Inc | Lk Worth Bch, FL | $10,691 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bam Festival Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $10,007 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Choral Society of the Palm Beaches | Palm Beach Gardens, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Flamingo Clay Studio Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Martin Luther King JR Coordinating Committee of West Palm Beach Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $9,704 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| West Third Street Dance Corp | Boca Raton, FL | $9,548 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Taras Oceanographic Foundation | West Palm Bch, FL | $9,474 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sea Turtle Adventures Incorporated | Boynton Beach, FL | $8,763 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Masterworks Chorus of the Palm Beaches Inc | Palm Beach, FL | $5,102 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grand Prix Dance Open America Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $4,404 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Philippine American Society Inc | Royal Plm Bch, FL | $3,318 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Caribbean-American for Community Involvement in Cflorida Inc | Royal Plm Bch, FL | $3,275 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
24 of 54 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 38 | $391,786 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 11 | $153,761 | $14,438 |
| 2022 | 15 | $189,086 | $14,117 |
| 2023 | 52 | $1,225,861 | $15,823 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,362 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Cultural Council of Palm Beach's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 601 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth Beach, FL, 33460.
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