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Jere D Creed Family 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,500
Organizations funded a year
7 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$318k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Jere D Creed Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalReligionAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$19k36%
FY202410$24k30%
FY20237$10k29%
FY20227$10k43%
FY202111$10k0%
FY202021$20k43%
FY201921$14k29%
FY201821$17k81%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$92kEducation$21kInternational$14kHealth$5kHuman Services$4kAnimals$2kArts & Culture$1kFood & Nutrition$421Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cross of Christ Lutheran Church$30,0004n/a
Our Savior Lutheran Church$29,7755n/a
Cowan Community School$15,2002n/a
Samaritan's Purse$9,37080%
St Agnes Episcopal Church$9,3005n/a
Food for the Hungry Inc$3,56680%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$3,20030%
Lutheran Church Charities Fund$3,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,55060%
American Heart Association Inc$1,11050%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Jere D Creed Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cross of Christ Lutheran Church$30,0004n/a
Our Savior Lutheran Church$29,7755n/a
Cowan Community School$15,2002n/a
Samaritan's Purse$9,37080%
St Agnes Episcopal Church$9,3005n/a
Food for the Hungry Inc$3,56680%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$3,20030%
Lutheran Church Charities Fund$3,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,55060%
American Heart Association Inc$1,11050%
Humane World for Animals Inc$80030%
Mercy Chefs Inc$5001n/a
Cowan Railroad Museum Inc$5001n/a
Michigan State University$5001n/a
Lutheran World Relief Inc$50010%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$25020%
Sewanee Community Chest$25040%
Animal Care Trust$25010%
Humane Society of Broward County Inc$25010%
Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc$25010%
Love and Hope Ministries$22520%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc$20010%
Sarasota Scullers Youth Rowing Program Inc$15010%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$11120%
Covenant House$10120%
Easter Seals Inc$10030%
Joe Dimaggio Children's Hospital Foundation Inc$10010%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$5010%
Jews for Jesus$501n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$5010%
American Bible Society$3510%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$2510%
American Macular Degeneration Goehring$2510%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$2510%
Save The Children Federation Inc$2510%

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jere D Creed Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSamaritan's Purse: $9,370 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFood for the Hungry Inc: $3,566 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Church Charities Fund: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,110 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran World Relief Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSewanee Community Chest: $250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Care Trust: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Broward County Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship for Performing Arts Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove and Hope Ministries: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Scullers Youth Rowing Program Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $111 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $101 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJoe Dimaggio Children's Hospital Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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
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.

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Find your warmest path to Jere D Creed Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Jere D Creed Family Foundation

How much does Jere D Creed Family Foundation give?
Jere D Creed Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $18,754 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jere D Creed Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (65%), Education (15%), International (10%).
Who are Jere D Creed Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cross of Christ Lutheran Church ($30k), Our Savior Lutheran Church ($30k), Cowan Community School ($15k).
Does Jere D Creed Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jere D Creed Family Foundation 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 Jere D Creed Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Jere D Creed Family Foundation based?
Jere D Creed Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 60 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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