Alabama · Nonprofit
Bear Creek Collaborative
Bear Creek Collaborative (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,477 to it, the largest being THE JOEL R ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($180,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $180k
What Bear Creek Collaborative does
Mission
Provide outdoor educational experiences
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide outdoor educational experiences
$78,622 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,622.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $98k to $180k (+84%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Bear Creek Collaborative’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $38k → $62k.
From the IRS filings of Bear Creek Collaborative’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Bear Creek Collaborative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
96% of Bear Creek Collaborative's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Bear Creek Collaborative runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,564 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,564 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Bear Creek Collaborative
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bear Creek Collaborative: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bear Creek Collaborative?
- Bear Creek Collaborative (Alabama) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,477 to it, the largest being THE JOEL R ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($180,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bear Creek Collaborative have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $253,477 in grants to Bear Creek Collaborative, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bear Creek Collaborative?
- THE JOEL R ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bear Creek Collaborative find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing