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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY$75,000
MOVEMENT GENERATION$75,000
OCEAN AWARENESS PROJEC INC$70,000
FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC$50,000
NATUREBRIDGE$50,000
BAVC$50,000
NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE$50,000
JOLT INITIATIVE$50,000
TUOLUMNE RIVER TRUST$40,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 10%EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 10%KPFA COMMUNITY POWERED RADIO: $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
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

IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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 Shasta-Diablo Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -4%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +10%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 40 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
15/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $580,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICSJOLT INITIATIVE: $50,000 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATIVEFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INCACCELERATE 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 Shasta-Diablo Inc: $25,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetCity Surf Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUC PRESS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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
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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 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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