Cultural Council of Palm Beach
Lake Worth Beach, FL · EIN 59-1862336. Reported 172 grants totalling $3,327,411 to 57 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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. 57 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. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $14,896. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $23,858; 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 | $213,482 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Digital Vibez Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $157,818 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Resource Depot Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $136,078 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts Inc | Lk Worth Bch, FL | $122,021 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Creative Education | West Palm Bch, FL | $115,004 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Aequalis Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $109,942 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Spady Cultural Heritage Museum Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $103,670 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boynton Cultural Centre Inc | Boynton Beach, FL | $102,871 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| ARTS4ALL Florida | Tampa, FL | $102,502 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Audubon Society of the Everglades | West Palm Bch, FL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gulfstream Goodwill Industries Inc | Mangonia Park, FL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Delray Beach Arts Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $92,122 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Middle School of the Arts Foundation Inc | N Palm Beach, FL | $88,323 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Youth Orchestras of Palm Beach County Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $80,861 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Friends of Sandoway House Nature Center Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $80,496 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Habilitation Center for the Handicapped Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach Inc | Palm Beach, FL | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nat King Cole Generation Hope Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $63,168 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dance Theater of Florida Inc | Palm Beach Gardens, FL | $53,804 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc | Jupiter, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Norton Museum of Art Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fiesta De Pueblo Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $46,924 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Young Singers of the Palm Beaches Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $44,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boca Raton Philarmonic Symphonia | Boca Raton, FL | $43,284 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lighthouse Artcenter Inc | Jupiter, FL | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Delray Beach Chorale Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $40,278 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Creative City Collaborative of Delray Beach Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc | Juno Beach, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| School of the Arts Foundation Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Armory Art Center Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival Inc | Jupiter, FL | $39,484 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Elevar Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $32,584 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Historical Society of Palm Beach County | West Palm Bch, FL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach Opera Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lake Worth Cultural Renaissance Foundation Inc | Lk Worth Bch, FL | $18,915 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bam Festival Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $18,886 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Choral Society of the Palm Beaches | Palm Beach Gardens, FL | $18,343 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| West Third Street Dance Corp | Boca Raton, FL | $17,772 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Taras Oceanographic Foundation | West Palm Bch, FL | $17,073 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Street Painting Festival | Lake Worth Beach, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Masterworks Chorus of the Palm Beaches Inc | Palm Beach, FL | $13,415 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blue Planet Global Education Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $12,018 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Azul Fashion Art & Design Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $11,971 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Philippine American Society Inc | Royal Plm Bch, FL | $11,259 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Caribbean-American for Community Involvement in Cflorida Inc | Royal Plm Bch, FL | $11,201 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Sea Turtle Adventures Incorporated | Boynton Beach, FL | $8,763 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shakespeare Troupe Incorporated | Boca Raton, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Veterans Memorial & Multicultural Histories Incorporated | West Palm Bch, FL | $5,971 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grand Prix Dance Open America Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $4,404 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
49 of 57 (86%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 48 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
| 2024 | 56 | $1,366,917 | $20,000 |
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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $14,896 -- 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 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 601 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth Beach, FL, 33460.
EIN 59-1862336 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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