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Creag Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH KING TOOL LIBRARY | $3,700 |
| NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP | $3,150 |
| YOUTHVIOLENCE PREVENTION COUNCIL OF SHASTA | $3,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY | $3,000 |
| AGUACLARA REACH | $3,000 |
| BARBORSHOP BOOKS | $3,000 |
| WHALE SCOUT | $2,500 |
| HOMEMORE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| HAPPY COMPROMISE FARM | $2,500 |
| HEALING JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| JESUS DRIVEN | $2,500 |
| ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
| THE PORCH MOVEMENT | $2,500 |
| NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| IVUMED | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Creag Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MCMelodic Caring Project3× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +47%
- AOAcres of Diamonds2× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +106%
- PAPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM2× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- KCK9 CARE A VANone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -98% · 40% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $8k
- JBJON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Women Enabled Enterprises strives to help low income women of color artisans in African countries grow their craft business for self-sufficiency through a virtual, mobile-phone based, retail entrepreneurship skills building program, access…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
In 2013, we learned of a problem. Our farming industry and our lands were slowly disappearing from existence. So we set out to make a difference & change the world. Today, we are steps away from embarking on an incredible journey of…
Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…
Provide skills training and employment for disabiled adults
Eat Happy's mission revolves around rescuing perfectly healthy food that would otherwise be discarded and ending up in landfills.
Mukti is a Sanskrit word that means "freedom from oppression and exploitation". Our goal is to see women and children find pathways to freedom. We partner with organizations around Asia that are on the frontlines helping to rescue and…
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
We are a group of creative, passionate people who believe there are low-waste or waste free solutions for almost every aspect of daily life. We work to build a more resilient community through education, modeling and advocating for low…
Stray Beautiful is a registered non-profit org, committed to the rescue & enhancement of the lives of vulnerable & neglected stray dogs, cats, puppies, & kittens across the world. Our primary focus lies in extending financial aid to local…
Four Winds Connections lives and loves radically at the intersection of human and animal well-being. We work within communities, support change and invite healing through the human-animal bond. Four Winds Connections preserves the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Finding Freedom Through Friendship Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cascadia Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 167 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Melodic Caring Project ↗
- Who funds K9 CARE A VAN ↗
- Who funds ALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Farms for Life ↗
- Who funds HOPE TO WALK INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEMORE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Dogs on Deployment ↗
- Who funds One Summit Inc ↗
- Who funds WHALE SCOUT INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST AID ARTS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREENSTAND ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH KING TOOL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION ↗
- Who funds DROP IN THE BUCKET ↗
- Who funds SAGES AND SEEKERS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Dragg Inc ↗
- Who funds VIVA FARMS ↗
- Who funds Ugandan Water Project ↗
- Who funds RECLAIM ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE EAU ↗
- Who funds Green Bridge Growers ↗
- Who funds NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds A Caring Closet ↗
- Who funds BLACK LEADERS DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Glory Reborn Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Cpps Heritage Mission Fund · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Washington Federal Foundation · The Carol Moss Foundation · Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation · The Elevate Prize Foundation Inc · The Bungie Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Creag Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- See Turtles — 11% of income from government
- Think Wild — 7% of income from government
- Lori's Hands Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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