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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Public Benefit$765kEnvironment$480kEducation$253kFood & Nutrition$250kAnimals$158kPhilanthropy$150kCommunity Improvement$103kCivil Rights$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $945k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS$500,000
WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND$250,000
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC$140,000
HOPEWELL FUND$125,000
VOTE FORWARD$125,000
URBAN TILTH$85,000
MOVEMENT GENERATION$75,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$75,000
OCEAN AWARENESS PROJEC INC$70,000
NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE$50,000
FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC$50,000
NATUREBRIDGE$50,000
BAVC$50,000
JOLT INITIATIVE$50,000
TUOLUMNE RIVER TRUST$40,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $25k → 16%NATUREBRIDGE: $50k → 8%URBAN TILTH: $85k → 9%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%BAVC: $50k → 10%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $10k → 12%TUOLUMNE RIVER TRUST: $40k → 14%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $75k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20k → 17%FLATBUSH CATS: $25k → 20%VOTE FORWARD: $125k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH EAST AND NORTH FLORIDA: $25k → 11%FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $50k → 15%ARCADIA FOOD INC: $25k → 6%PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM: $7k → 7%NATUREBRIDGE: $10k → 8%OCEAN AWARENESS PROJEC INC: $70k → 9%CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $500k → 10%GLOBAL EXCHANGE: $30k → 10%TUOLUMNE RIVER TRUST: $30k → 14%NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY: $15k → 16%FLATBUSH CATS: $15k → 20%HOPEWELL FUND: $125k → 14%ARCADIA FOOD INC: $15k → 6%NATUREBRIDGE: $10k → 8%URBAN TILTH: $25k → 9%CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $30k → 10%NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%FLATBUSH CATS: $10k → 20%WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $250k → 14%OCEAN AWARENESS PROJEC INC: $50k → 9%CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $25k → 10%FLATBUSH CATS: $8k → 20%URBAN TILTH: $10k → 9%CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $25k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25k → 9%BAYKEEPER: $15k → 10%SF MIME TROUPE: $30k → 10%SOGOREA TE' LAND TRUST: $10k → 10%CITY SURF PROJECT: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC: $140k → 10%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC: $20k → 10%KPFA COMMUNITY POWERED RADIO: $10k → 10%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 10%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 10%SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$812k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’23’24’25
EnvironmentCivil RightsArts & CultureAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • Earth Island Institute Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $180k · revenue +35%
  • NR
    New Roots Institute
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +29%
  • N
    NATUREBRIDGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $73k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -4%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
4
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
9
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
10
Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment
11
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
12
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Tilth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%49%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,945

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
15/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $580,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICSFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INCJOLT INITIATIVE — $50,000 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATIVEACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsEarth Island Institute Inc — $180,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute …OCEAN AWARENESS PROJECT INC — $120,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN AWARENESS PROJECT…Urban Tilth — $120,000 · EnvironmentUrban TilthNATUREBRIDGE — $72,500 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE+3 more — $27,500 · EnvironmentVOTE FORWARD — $125,000 · OtherVOTE FORWARDCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY — $90,000 · OtherCORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOG…Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance — $70,000 · OtherTuolumne River Preservati…BAVC — $50,000 · OtherBAVCIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $20,000 · OtherGLOBAL EXCHANGE — $30,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $25,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $25,000 · Other+9 more — $77,000 · Other+9 moreWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA E…Movement Generation — $102,500 · EducationMovement Generati…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $25,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND …+1 more — $25 · EducationHOPEWELL FUND — $125,000 · PhilanthropyNew Roots Institute — $75,000 · Food & NutritionARCADIA FOOD INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionFLATBUSH CATS INC — $62,500 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsHUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $5,060 · Animals
Civil Rights$705,000Environment$520,000Other$567,000Education$377,525Philanthropy$125,000Food & Nutrition$115,000Animals$77,560

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $580,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $180,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVOTE FORWARD — $125,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetOCEAN AWARENESS PROJECT INC — $120,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetUrban Tilth — $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMovement Generation — $102,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNew Roots Institute — $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $72,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance — $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFLATBUSH CATS INC — $62,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARCADIA FOOD INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL EXCHANGE — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaykeeper — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUC PRESS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCity Surf Project — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL OCEAN FILM FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSustainable Conservation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…Tides FoundationImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…PatagoniaorgEast Bay Community Fo…The Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…The Keith Campbell Fo…Windward FundRsf Social Finance IncAmalgamated Charitabl…
Marin Community FoundationCA20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to Forest Creatures Foundation Ltd 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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