Florida · Nonprofit
CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION
CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being THE TRACKING FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $276k
What Creative Defense Foundation does
Mission
The applicant's activities are for the purpose of educating the public on issues related to national security as well as leveraging relationships to bring together leaders across industries and the country to convene for the purpose of mutual education and discussion on national security issues and developing changes in the field. Accordingly, the applicant's activities are largely focused on two prongs (1) educating the public by providing easy access to educational materials on issues in national security, and (2) facilitating conversations among thinkers and leaders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Holding conferences to bring together national security leaders, u.s. Entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs to address the institutional, cultural, policy, and legal barriers impeding innovators from bringing their technologies, speed, agility, and cost effectiveness to u.s. National security.
$782,203 spent$1,480,374 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $782,203.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $237k to $626k (+164%).
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.
1% of CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kylie Carroll
Executive director
Board chair
Richard Carroll
Director/chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
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
CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION: 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 CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION?
- CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being THE TRACKING FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION?
- THE TRACKING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE DEFENSE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 1 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