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Creag Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$80kAnimals$59kHuman Services$37kFood & Nutrition$35kInternational$29kArts & Culture$29kEducation$27kHousing & Shelter$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH KING TOOL LIBRARY$3,700
NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP$3,150
BARBORSHOP BOOKS$3,000
YOUTHVIOLENCE PREVENTION COUNCIL OF SHASTA$3,000
AGUACLARA REACH$3,000
UPPER VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY$3,000
ECOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,500
HEALING JUSTICE$2,500
THE PORCH MOVEMENT$2,500
PROJECT STREET VET$2,500
HOMEMORE PROJECT$2,500
HAPPY COMPROMISE FARM$2,500
NORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$2,500
WHALE SCOUT$2,500
JESUS DRIVEN$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROOM FOR JOY: $2k → 11%LORI'S HANDS: $2k → 10%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $2k → 8%BEFRIENDERS: $2k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION: $4k → 9%YOUTHVIOLENCE PREVENTION COUNCIL OF SHASTA: $3k → 14%INITIATIVEEAU: $3k → 14%MACHEO US: $3k → 16%SHAREBUILT: $2k → 4%EMITE INC: $1k → 12%CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $3k → 9%KEEPING FAMILIES COVERED: $2k → 8%PRIDE TREE: $2k → 13%S&L FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $1k → 14%THE INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%WISH FOR WHEELS: $3k → 12%SPACE BETWEEN: $3k → 9%HOMEMORE PROJECT: $3k → 14%NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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MN
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WI
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NY
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OR
NV
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
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CO
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KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Creag Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 32%.

Creag Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75k · 13 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
117

Total granted

$75k
$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MC
    Melodic Caring Project
    3× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +47%
  • AO
    Acres of Diamonds
    2× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +106%
  • PA
    PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM
    2× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • KC
    K9 CARE A VAN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -98% · 40% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • JB
    JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Women Enabled Enterprises

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…

Human Services
2
World Vets

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…

Animals
3
The Why Not Us Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
5
Eden International

Provide skills training and employment for disabiled adults

Employment
6
Eat Happy Now

Eat Happy's mission revolves around rescuing perfectly healthy food that would otherwise be discarded and ending up in landfills.

Food & Nutrition
7
Mukti International

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Health Poverty Action Usa

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…

International
9
Mindful Waste
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10
Spokane Zero Waste

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…

Environment
11
Straybeautifullimited

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…

Animals
12
Four Winds Connections

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Finding Freedom Through Friendship Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/130
Grantees still filing
72/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

K9 CARE A VAN: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · Other+84 more: $195,450 · Other+84 moreMelodic Caring Project: $11,500 · HealthMelodic Caring …Acres of Diamonds: $6,000 · HealthAcres of Diamon…HOPE TO WALK INC: $5,500 · HealthHOPE TO WALK IN…One Summit Inc: $5,000 · HealthOne Summit IncFIRST AID ARTS: $4,000 · HealthFIRST AID ARTSWORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE: $3,500 · HealthWORLD TELEHEALT…Green Bridge Growers: $3,300 · HealthThe Soondra Foundation: $3,000 · HealthA Caring Closet: $3,000 · HealthSUFFER OUT LOUD: $2,500 · HealthJZIPS INC: $2,500 · Health+7 more: $12,500 · Health+7 moreHOMEMORE PROJECT INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesHOMEMORE PROJ…PENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION: $3,500 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA …DROP IN THE BUCKET: $3,500 · Human ServicesDROP IN THE B…INITIATIVE EAU: $3,425 · Human ServicesINITIATIVE EA…NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $3,150 · Human ServicesNEW NEIGHBORS…RESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE- FREED…Wish for Wheels Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesWish for Whee…Youth Violence Prevention Council of Shasta County dba Youth Options Shasta: $3,000 · Human ServicesYouth Violenc…CASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $3,000 · Human ServicesCASCADIA ART …MACHEO US: $2,500 · Human ServicesSPACE BETWEEN: $2,500 · Human ServicesBefrienders: $2,000 · Human ServicesROOM FOR JOY: $2,000 · Human ServicesLORI'S HANDS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN: $2,000 · Human ServicesKEEPING FAMILIES COVERED: $2,000 · Human Services+6 more: $8,100 · Human Services+6 moreCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $5,500 · AnimalsCHIMPANZEE …Dogs on Deployment: $5,500 · AnimalsDogs on Dep…WHALE SCOUT INC: $4,750 · AnimalsWHALE SCOUT…SEE TURTLES: $3,000 · AnimalsSEE TURTLESTHE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE WHALE S…Friends Involved in Dog Outreach: $3,000 · AnimalsFriends Inv…FENCES FOR FIDO: $3,000 · AnimalsFENCES FOR …INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $3,000 · AnimalsINTERNATION…PROJECT STREET VET: $2,500 · AnimalsPROJECT STR…WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $2,500 · AnimalsWILD SHEEP …PAWSTER NASHVILLE: $2,000 · AnimalsFOOD ANIMAL CONCERNS TRUST (FACT INC): $2,000 · AnimalsTHE INNER PUP: $2,000 · AnimalsThink Wild: $1,500 · AnimalsALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMON ACRE: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVETS: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMarine Mammals of Maine: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCURTIS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureGRACE CARES INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureART ON WHEELS NFP: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $1,500 · Arts & CulturePAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $6,000 · EducationRECLAIM: $3,500 · EducationBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $3,000 · EducationNORTHSHORE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationLIBRARIES OF LOVE: $2,200 · EducationSHAREFEST TEXAS INC: $2,000 · EducationFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $2,000 · EducationOperation Blankets Of Love: $1,500 · EducationVILLAGE LTD: $1,250 · EducationUgandan Water Project: $3,500 · InternationalCureCervicalCancer: $3,000 · InternationalAGUACLARA REACH INC: $3,000 · InternationalMY 360 PROJECT: $2,500 · InternationalIVU MED: $2,500 · InternationalWHEELCHAIRS FOR NIGERIA: $1,800 · InternationalFINDING FREEDOM THROUGH FRIENDSHIP INC: $1,600 · InternationalSERVANT PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 · International
Other$213,450Health$62,300Human Services$54,175Animals$43,250Arts & Culture$27,000Education$23,950International$18,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMelodic Caring Project: $11,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetK9 CARE A VAN: $10,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE TO WALK INC: $5,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFarms for Life: $5,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHOMEMORE PROJECT INC: $5,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDogs on Deployment: $5,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOne Summit Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWHALE SCOUT INC: $4,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREENSTAND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST AID ARTS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON WATER TRUST: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH KING TOOL LIBRARY: $3,700 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUgandan Water Project: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRECLAIM: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVIVA FARMS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAGES AND SEEKERS INCORPORATED: $3,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FURNITURE MISSION: $3,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDROP IN THE BUCKET: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDragg Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINITIATIVE EAU: $3,425 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Soondra Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUPPER VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCureCervicalCancer: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEE TURTLES: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WHALE SANCTUARY PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends Involved in Dog Outreach: $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWish for Wheels Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGlory Reborn Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCREATIVETS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Violence Prevention Council of Shasta County dba Youth Options Shasta: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA Caring Closet: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABIDE MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFENCES FOR FIDO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEastWest Food Rescue: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEGAN'S WINGS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLACK LEADERS DETROIT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetReunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUFFER OUT LOUD: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMarine Mammals of Maine: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Seattle FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Cpps Heritage Mission…Credit Unions in the …Washington Federal Fo…The Carol Moss Founda…Innovating Worthy Pro…The Elevate Prize Fou…The Bungie FoundationThornton S Jr and Kat…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA19.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Creag Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Creag Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Creag Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Creag 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.

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 167 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home