California · Private foundation
Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd
THE MISSION OF THE FOREST CREATURES FOUNDATION IS TO BUILD AN ENDURING LEGACY OF PEACE, COEXISTENCE, AND COMMUNITY THROUGH THE USE OF FILM, TELEVISION, NEW MEDIA, THE DRAMATIC ARTS, AND OTHER RELATED DISCIPLINES OF THE ARTS. Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the…
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $1.8M | 48% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $478k | 86% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $55k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Empowered Politics | $580,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Working America Education Fund | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Earth Island Institute Inc | $180,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vote Forward | $125,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Ocean Awareness Project Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Urban Tilth | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Movement Generation | $102,500 | 2 | 3% |
| New Roots Institute | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Naturebridge | $72,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($210k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · East Bay Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Windward Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd
- How much does Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd give?
- Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd reported 29 grants totaling $1,922,560 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (31%), Environment (19%), Education (10%).
- Who are Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Center for Empowered Politics ($580k), Working America Education Fund ($250k), Earth Island Institute Inc ($180k).
- Does Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd based?
- Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd is based in CA.
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