· Private foundation
Grassy Creek Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,005,220 |
| NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND | $150,000 |
| UNC ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DREAM NYC (HARLEM RBI INC) | $50,000 |
| ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION (ASF) | $25,000 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST (BTT) | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 39% of Grassy Creek Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +131% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NFNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $600k · revenue +62%
- OAOCEAN AID 360 INC4× · 2021–2024 · $404k · revenue +131% · 62% of their budget
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +375%
Funded once
- UCUNC COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESone grant, 2019 · $277k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +21%- UUNCone grant, 2018 · $96k
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN AID 360 INC ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
- Who funds ODA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN EDUCATIONAL RADIO ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grassy Creek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grassy Creek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
How this is measured
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