Creative Visions Foundation
ActiveArts, Culture & Humanities
About Creative Visions Foundation
Creative Visions empowers creative activists to raise awareness of critical issues and drive positive change through impact storytelling, using media, art and education to create a more caring, just and sustainable world.
Focus Areas
Impact mediaFilm and storytellingArts and cultureYouth education and internship programsFiscal sponsorshipEnvironment & climateMental health & wellnessEmpowering women & girlsDemocracy & freedomRefugees & immigrationHuman rights / UN Sustainable Development Goals
Who They Fund
creative activists (global)grassroots community organizations
About Creative Visions Foundation
Creative Visions Foundation’s recent giving is dominated by large creative-media grants to production companies and storytelling projects, with several awards in the seven-figure range. That pattern fits its stated emphasis on impact storytelling: film, journalism, music, visual arts, and other media used to advance social change. Among the largest recent grants were $4,184,422 to Structural Unemployment LLC in Los Angeles and $1,697,800 to XTR Film Society, also in Los Angeles. Other substantial awards reached projects in New York, Nevada, and Washington, showing a portfolio built around creative work rather than a single service model. The foundation supports creative activists, grassroots organizations, artists, journalists, and youth storytellers through grants, fiscal sponsorship, and a year-long fellowship model for filmmakers. Its program areas include environment and climate, mental health and wellness, empowering women and girls, democracy and freedom, refugees and immigration, human rights, arts and culture, and youth education. Recent grants also show support for films and media projects connected to nonprofit storytelling, public awareness, and advocacy. The foundation funds both established entities and project-based LLCs, which suggests a grantmaking style built around production needs and media output rather than only traditional nonprofit operating support.
What Creative Visions Foundation Funds
Creative Visions Foundation gives across several storytelling-centered cause areas. In climate and environmental work, it awarded $697,951 to Optimist Films LLC in Los Angeles. In mental health and wellness, it gave $580,741 to American Psych Practitioners Assn in Spokane. In women’s and girls’ work, one grant went to Impakt Partners LLC in Santa Monica for $883,951. The foundation also uses media to engage civic issues. It granted $575,000 to The Fred Ross Project LLC in Oakland, and $419,928 to Grants of the Nile LLC in New York. Those awards fit a pattern of backing projects that use film, journalism, and related creative formats to frame public issues. Its active program descriptions also point to support for impact media, documentary film, narrative film, journalism, music, and visual and performing arts, alongside social-impact themes such as democracy, refugees and immigration, and human rights.
How Creative Visions Foundation Gives
Creative Visions Foundation’s typical grant size is $13,950 at the 25th percentile, $38,701 at the median, and $142,650 at the 75th percentile, but the recent-gift list also includes much larger project grants in the six- and seven-figure range. It is a regular funder rather than a donor-advised fund, and it does not fund individuals. The grant record shows repeated support to the same recipients across multiple years, including Structural Unemployment LLC, Wonderstruck Productions LLC, Hg Films LLC, and Louisville Films. That repeat pattern suggests ongoing project support rather than one-time awards. The foundation also runs an active fiscal sponsorship program and an unsolicited emergency grant option for artists facing COVID-19 hardship.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$11.5M
Total Assets
$7.8M
Total Revenue
$21.2M
Total Expenses
$16M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $14K and $143K, with a median of $39K.
25th Percentile
$14K
Median
$39K
75th Percentile
$143K
Geographic Reach
Regional26 states funded
About 54% of grants go to recipients in MN.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Patricia Chandler
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Creative Visions Foundation Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Creative Visions Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 219 | $32.2M | 99.1% |
| 2 | Afghanistan | 2 | $18K |
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