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3rd Creek Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$68k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations 3rd Creek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$68k20%
FY20246$92k33%
FY20236$100k17%
FY202210$85k30%
FY20217$61k29%
FY20207$76k57%
FY20196$53k17%
FY20185$65k40%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$305kCommunity Improvement$112kFood & Nutrition$112kEnvironment$69kEducation$6kEmployment$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHealth$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
WI
NY
MA
NV
CA
CO
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Upaya Social Ventures$128,65784%
Street Business School$117,00072%
Charcoal Project Inc$68,000661%
SK2 Fund$40,50031%
Development in Gardening$30,00022%
Village Enterprise Fund$25,10030%
Medha Corp$5,00012%
The Maasai Girls Education Fund$3,50012%
Nevada Nordic$1,5002n/a
Dzi Foundation$50010%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of 3rd Creek Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Upaya Social Ventures$128,65784%
Street Business School$117,00072%
Charcoal Project Inc$68,000661%
SK2 Fund$40,50031%
Development in Gardening$30,00022%
Village Enterprise Fund$25,10030%
Medha Corp$5,00012%
The Maasai Girls Education Fund$3,50012%
Nevada Nordic$1,5002n/a
Dzi Foundation$50010%
Oral Health Nevada Inc$5001n/a
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$50010%
Wildcare$25010%
Working Capital for Community Needs Inc$5010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($228k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

3rd Creek Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUpaya Social Ventures: $128,657 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetStreet Business School: $117,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCharcoal Project Inc: $68,000 over 6y, 61% of budgetSK2 Fund: $40,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDevelopment in Gardening: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetVillage Enterprise Fund: $25,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMedha Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Maasai Girls Education Fund: $3,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDzi Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildcare: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorking Capital for Community Needs Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

ImpactassetsincMD12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to 3rd Creek Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 3rd Creek Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About 3rd Creek Foundation

How much does 3rd Creek Foundation give?
3rd Creek Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does 3rd Creek Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (47%), Community Improvement (17%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
Who are 3rd Creek Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upaya Social Ventures ($129k), Street Business School ($117k), Charcoal Project Inc ($68k).
Does 3rd Creek Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 3rd Creek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as 3rd Creek Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is 3rd Creek Foundation based?
3rd Creek Foundation is based in NV.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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