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The Creative Gift Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Creative Gift Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$119kHuman Services$7kCommunity Improvement$6kReligion$200
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$405k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lambs Players Theatre$10,000
FusionFest INC$5,000
Taproot Theatre$5,000
Applied theatre center$1,895
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE: $15k → 11%PACIFIC THEATRE: $8k → 14%SPARK AND ECHO ARTS: $6k → 9%SEA DOG THEATRE: $5k → 17%FUSION FEST: $10k → 13%Taproot Theatre: $5k → 9%Lambs Players Theatre: $10k → 11%Fractured Atlas: $5k → 17%FUSIONFEST INC: $7k → 13%TAPROOT THEATRE: $5k → 9%SEA DOG THEATRE: $5k → 17%Downtown Arts District: $6k → 13%FRACTURED ATLAS: $4k → 17%FusionFest INC: $5k → 13%New York Production of: $3k → 17%SAK THEATRE: $5k → 13%FRACTURED ATLAS: $2k → 17%Church on the Drive: $200 → 13%Sea Dog Theatre: $1k → 17%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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97k · 7 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$97k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • LP
    LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +73%
  • FI
    FUSIONFEST INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $22k · revenue +55%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • PT
    PACIFIC THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • PS
    PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +7%
  • SA
    SPARK AND ECHO ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -78%
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
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
2
Theatre Tweed Inc

Promoting new artists in the performing arena

Arts & Culture
3
Haven Arts Theatre

We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.

Arts & Culture
4
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
5
P & J Theater Works
Arts & Culture
6
The Russian Arts Theatre and Studio

Develop recognition of international theater

Arts & Culture
7
Open Fist Theatre Company

Open Fist Theatre Company is a self-governing community of theatre artists who believe in the transformative imperative of inclusive and collaborative theatre. Dedicated to expanding social awareness through art, we seek, through diverse…

Arts & Culture
8
Theatre Company

Our mission is to enliven our community by transforming found spaces with bold, theatrical endeavors. We place an emphasis on partnering with local businesses all over PDX to serve as venues for our productions

Arts & Culture
9
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
10
One Light Theatre Co
Arts & Culture
11
Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
12
34 West Productions

Professional arts organization that creates and presents original, accessbile, and optimistic works for theatre, film, visual arts, and literature.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Stage Company; the most unlike its peers is Lambs Players Theatre. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLAMBS PLAYERS THEATREFUSIONFEST INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureFUSIONFEST INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCSEA DOG THEATER INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSEA DOG THEATER INCTHE TAPROOT THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TAPROOT THEATREPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $6,400 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND STAGE COMPANYDOWNTOWN ARTS DISTRICT INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN ARTS DISTRICT INC+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC THEATER: $11,000 · OtherPACIFIC THEATERPACIFIC THEATRE: $8,000 · OtherPACIFIC THEATRESAK THEATRE: $5,000 · OtherSAK THEATRENew York Production of: $2,500 · OtherNew York Production of+1 more: $200 · OtherAPPLIED THEATRE CENTER INC: $6,895 · Human ServicesSPARK AND ECHO ARTS INC: $6,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$92,400Other$26,700Human Services$6,895Religion$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAMBS PLAYERS THEATRE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFUSIONFEST INC: $22,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAPROOT THEATRE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAPPLIED THEATRE CENTER INC: $6,895 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $6,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPARK AND ECHO ARTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDOWNTOWN ARTS DISTRICT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCITA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 6.6% 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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Creative Gift Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Creative Gift Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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