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Create Foundation

Nonprofit, charitable organization which serves as a community foundation to stimulate giving for human dev- olpment projects in education, health and human services, cultural enrichment, and leadership development.

$20M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
—
States reached
$9.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0167% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$48MHuman Services$1.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $18,997,911, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,934,838 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $936,927 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $384k
  • $250k+4 grants · $19M
$1,136,724
Median grant
—
States reached
$200M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DISBURSEMENTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS$9,304,876
DONOR DIRECTED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES$7,784,274
ENDOWMENT FUND DISTRIBUTIONS$1,136,724
DESIGNATED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES$388,408
PROGRAM SERVICE DISBURSEMENTS$209,279
Individual grant recipient$174,350
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105M · 6 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
0

Total granted

$105M
$0

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • DF
    DISBURSEMENTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51M
  • DD
    DONOR DIRECTED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36M
  • EF
    ENDOWMENT FUND DISTRIBUTIONS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M

Funded once

    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.

    03Its field
    03the grantee network

    0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 6 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    0/0
    Grantees still filing
    0/0
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    DISBURSEMENTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS: $50,872,554 · OtherDISBURSEMENTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTSDONOR DIRECTED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES: $36,205,289 · OtherDONOR DIRECTED TO VARIOUS CHARITIESENDOWMENT FUND DISTRIBUTIONS: $6,841,835 · OtherENDOWMENT FUND DISTRIBUTIONSDESIGNATED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES: $4,768,634 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,277,074 · Other+1 more: $1,925,249 · Other
    Other$104,890,635

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

    25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

    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 6 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 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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