Missouri · Private foundation
Deer Creek Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $41M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Deer Creek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $2.4M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $2.4M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $2.6M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archcity Defenders | $2,190,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Earthjustice | $1,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Constitutional Accountability Center | $1,075,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Americans United for Separation of Church and State | $825,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $820,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Center for Progressive Reform Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 29% |
| Verified Voting Foundation | $495,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Crag Law Center | $480,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Civil Rights Corps | $450,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Beyond Nuclear | $365,000 | 5 | 20% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archcity Defenders | $2,190,000 | 5 | 15% |
| Earthjustice | $1,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Constitutional Accountability Center | $1,075,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Americans United for Separation of Church and State | $825,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $820,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Center for Progressive Reform Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 29% |
| Verified Voting Foundation | $495,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Crag Law Center | $480,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Civil Rights Corps | $450,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Beyond Nuclear | $365,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Public Justice Foundation | $315,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Committee to Bridge the Gap | $280,000 | 5 | 35% |
| Electronic Privacy Information Center | $265,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Inc | $230,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Wildearth Guardians | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cascadia Wildlands | $160,000 | 4 | 4% |
| St Louis Public Schools Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Free and Fair Litigation Group Inc | $85,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Government Accountability Project | $80,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Lone Star Legal Aid | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest Environmental Defense Center | $60,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Candid | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Deer Creek Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Deer Creek Foundation
- How much does Deer Creek Foundation give?
- Deer Creek Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $2,422,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Deer Creek Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (42%), Crime & Legal (31%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are Deer Creek Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Archcity Defenders ($2.2M), Earthjustice ($1.5M), Constitutional Accountability Center ($1.1M).
- Does Deer Creek Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Deer Creek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Deer Creek Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Schmidt Family Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Deer Creek Foundation based?
- Deer Creek Foundation is based in MO.
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