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CREATIVE LEARNING INC

CREATIVE LEARNING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,462,556 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($5,710,538). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$6.5M
Net assets
$437k
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Creative Learning Inc does

Mission

Creative learning (cl) enhances the capacity of local organizations around the world to improve the lives of people in their communities, focusing on communities with pressing human needs. Through the creation of peopleto people partnerships, cl is especially dedicated to protecting human rights, supporting economic and social development, building peace, and empowering peacemakers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Handmade to market (formerly aid to artisans) creates opportunities for lowincome artisans around the world to build profitable businesses inspired by handmade traditions. Handmade to market offers access to new markets, business training, ecoeffective processes, and design innovation through a network of partners to promote sustainable growth and community wellbeing.

    $1,009,121 spent$8,071 earned by the program
    79% of program spending

  2. Peace & security focus area facilitates the transfer of knowledge and skills to a global audience from the world's premier political leaders, academic experts, practitioners, and advocates. Ipsi develops comprehensive training programs, advances scholarly research, and promotes efforts to raise public awareness of peace and security issues. It is founded on the core belief that education can mitigate violent conflict.

    $270,440 spentof which $85,153 as grants$74,040 earned by the program
    21% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,279,561.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets -25 ($-108043)2019 Revenue 141 ($2.8M) Expenses 106 ($2.3M) Net assets -9 ($-40740)2020 Revenue 73 ($1.5M) Expenses 68 ($1.5M) Net assets -15 ($-66592)2021 Revenue 99 ($2.0M) Expenses 97 ($2.1M) Net assets -45 ($-195864)2022 Revenue 105 ($2.1M) Expenses 94 ($2.0M) Net assets -27 ($-119201)2023 Revenue 91 ($1.8M) Expenses 83 ($1.8M) Net assets -23 ($-100093)2024 Revenue 71 ($1.4M) Expenses 77 ($1.7M) Net assets -79 ($-342842)2025 Revenue 96 ($1.9M) Expenses 75 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($437k)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (75)Net assets (100)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $581k to $970k (+67%).

$693k
$581k
$970k
$1.2M
$1.1M
$773k
$991k
$859k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 19% · 2019 68% · 2020 74% · 2021 93% · 2022 28% · 2023 15% · 2024 11% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$164k
’18
$532k
’19
−$26k
’20
−$129k
’21
$77k
’22
$16k
’23
−$249k
’24
$305k
’25
5.7
months of
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.

Board chair

William Kruvant

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1212655579
Joined·+1+0+2+0+0+2+2
No longer listed·1630000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $492k → $254k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
Trickle Up Program Incunclassified
$113k
funders
3
2
2
3
3
4
1
3
2

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CREATIVE LEARNING INC’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

CREATIVE LEARNING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 91% · 2019 79% · 2020 90% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — 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

CREATIVE LEARNING INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.

MI
NY
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $633k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding CREATIVE LEARNING INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $257k on record — $250k federal, $7k state.

Federal$250k
grants $250kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of State$250k
State$7k
15
17
Top programs
  • DEDICATED$7k
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$15

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CREATIVE LEARNING INC

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 Maryland

Creative City Public Charter School Foundation Inc73%Novella Center for Entrepreneurship by Conscious Venture Lab Inc73%Lutheran World Relief Inc72%Child Trends Inc72%Cura Personalis Project Inc72%Center for Civic Design Inc72%International Critical Incident Stress Foundation Inc72%Women's Learning Partnership for Rights Development and Peace Ltd72%

Nationally

Collective Change Lab Inc78%Childhood Education International77%Child Creativity Lab77%Cristosal Inc77%Creative Commons Corporation77%The Creative Ladder77%Cultural Survival Inc76%Center for Creative Leadership76%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

41%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

NY
VA
MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Creative Associates International · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds CREATIVE LEARNING INC?
CREATIVE LEARNING INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,462,556 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($5,710,538). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CREATIVE LEARNING INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $6,462,556 in grants to CREATIVE LEARNING INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE LEARNING INC?
WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,710,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CREATIVE LEARNING INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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