How much does The Creek Bed Foundation give?

The Creek Bed Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $308,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Creek Bed Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (39%), Environment (36%), Recreation & Sports (6%).

Who are The Creek Bed Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pacific Wild Alliance Inc ($231k), Mountain Goat Trail Alliance Inc ($150k), Lamia Afghan Foundation Inc ($125k).

Does The Creek Bed Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Creek Bed Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Creek Bed Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is The Creek Bed Foundation based?

The Creek Bed Foundation is based in TN.

The Creek Bed Foundation

The Creek Bed Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Creek Bed Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$308k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$115k

Largest

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 2025.

Animals$1.2MEnvironment$1.1MRecreation & Sports$175kArts & Culture$160kInternational$125kHealth$100kCrime & Legal$50kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k5 grants · $93k
$50k–250k3 grants · $215k

$28,200

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION AGENC	$115,000
LAMIA AFGHAN FOUNDATION	$50,000
STATEWIDE ORGANIZING FOR COMMUNITY	$50,000
PACIFIC WILD ALLIANCE	$28,200
CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY	$25,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND	$15,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY	$15,000
NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION	$10,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 16 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+41%

Still filing today

63%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

PW
PACIFIC WILD ALLIANCE INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $231k · revenue +56%
TL
TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY
5× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +80%
GE
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +83%

Funded once

MG
Mountain Goat Trail Alliance Incgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +55% · 30% of their budget
AI
AMBER INTIATIVE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k
BI
BLACK IN APPALACHIAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +106% · 35% of their budget

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.

Discover Life in America Inc

Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.

Environment

Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals

Grand Teton National Park Foundation

Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…

Philanthropy

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Pacific Crest Trail Association

The pacific crest trail association's mission is to advocate for the pacific crest trail as an inspirational outdoor experience, to connect people to the pct, and to conserve the trail.

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Gallatin Wildlife Association

Promote research and actions to save wildlife.

Animals

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Northern Jaguar Project

The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.

Animals

Runners for Public Lands

We empower runners to protect public lands, engage in climate action, and expand access to nature for all. Runners are motivated to be involved in their local communities to protect cherished landscapes and expand access to nature.…

Environment

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Predator Defense

Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.

Animals

International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Plank Road Station. 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

12/17

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,025,632Animals$296,200Recreation & Sports$265,000Human Services$215,000Arts & Culture$75,000Environment$30,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Education$5,000

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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Creek Bed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Creek Bed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home