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Creigh Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.0MHuman Services$183kCivil Rights$167kSocial Science$161kPublic Benefit$143kCrime & Legal$81kArts & Culture$43kInternational$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $165k
$4,500
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$47,500
WABASH COLLEGE$45,000
MERCERSBURG ACADEMY$45,000
Concordia University$27,500
Austin University$5,500
Pacific Legal Foundation$4,500
Platte Institute for Economic Research$4,500
First Things Foundation$4,500
American Council of Trustees & Alumni$4,500
National Right to Work Committee$4,500
Heritage Foundation$4,500
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education$4,500
The Federalist Society$4,500
Jack Miller Center$4,500
Foundation for Economic Education$4,500
02The need
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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 (FY19–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%National Parents Organization: $5k → 8%Libertas Foundation: $5k → 14%NATIONAL PARENTS ORGANIZATION: $4k → 8%Libertas Foundation: $5k → 14%National Parents Organization: $4k → 8%Libertas Foundation: $5k → 14%National Parents Organization: $4k → 8%Libertas Foundation: $4k → 14%NATIONAL PARENTS ORGANIZATION: $2k → 8%Libertas Foundation: $2k → 14%NATIONAL PARENTS ORGANIZATION: $2k → 8%Libertas Foundation: $2k → 14%NATIONAL PARENTS ORGANIZATION: $2k → 8%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

MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 58 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
10

Total granted

$1.8M
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+10%

Still filing today

72%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceArts & CultureCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • WC
    Wabash College
    7× · 2019–2025 · $230k · revenue +35%
  • CU
    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $129k · revenue +25%
  • NW
    NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SU
    Stanford UniversityHooker Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • JM
    JAMES MARTIN CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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2
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
National Civil Justice Institute

The objectives and goals of the institute shall be to receive and administer funds for the purpose of providing and supporting educational programs for lawyers, legal academics, and members of the judiciary, conferences and publications…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Adams County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 70 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
43/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCERSBURG ACADEMY: $230,000 · OtherMERCERSBURG ACADEMYHillsdale: $129,500 · OtherHillsdaleIndividual grant recipient: $48,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $34,495 · Other+33 more: $400,286 · Other+33 moreWabash College: $230,000 · EducationWabash CollegeCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $128,500 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITYHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $82,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGENEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $37,500 · EducationNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYDICKINSON COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE: $20,500 · Education+4 more: $30,000 · Education+4 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $28,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERIT…MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $28,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN…AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $28,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN …BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $28,000 · Public BenefitBARRY GOL…CATO INSTITUTE: $25,500 · Public BenefitCATO INST…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $24,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL …PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $29,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $28,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $21,500 · Social ScienceFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $21,500 · Social ScienceNEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $8,500 · Social ScienceFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $33,000 · Civil RightsMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $28,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $28,000 · Civil RightsSpeech First Inc: $16,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $28,000 · Arts & CultureNew Civil Liberties Alliance: $16,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $13,650 · Arts & CultureNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY: $4,250 · Arts & CulturePacific Legal Foundation: $28,000 · Crime & LegalTHE EQUAL VOTING RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $16,500 · Crime & LegalAmerica First Legal Foundation: $13,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$842,881Education$554,000Public Benefit$162,000Social Science$108,500Civil Rights$105,500Arts & Culture$70,900Crime & Legal$58,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWabash College: $230,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY: $128,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $82,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $33,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCUES FUND: $28,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK COMMITTEE: $28,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $28,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $28,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $25,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $24,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTAS FOUNDATION: $21,558 over 6y, 27% of budgetNational Parents Organization Inc: $21,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $21,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $21,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST THINGS FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE: $20,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Civil Liberties Alliance: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSpeech First Inc: $16,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE EQUAL VOTING RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $16,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $13,650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica First Legal Foundation: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $8,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetOTTER TAIL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,250 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY: $4,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLinfield University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Wabash College ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLATTE INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CUES FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Parents Organization Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIRST THINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds New Civil Liberties Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Speech First Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE EQUAL VOTING RIGHTS INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Donors Trust IncBradley Impact Fund I…Greater HorizonsBader Family Foundati…LeRoy Thom Jean Thom …D F Dillon FoundationSarah Scaife Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…The Sherwood Foundati…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Greater Horizons · Bader Family Foundation · LeRoy Thom Jean Thom and T-L Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Creigh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Creigh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 70 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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