Vermont · Nonprofit
CREATIVE LIVES INC
CREATIVE LIVES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,553,169 to it, the largest being THE JAMES AND REBECCA MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($677,647). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $51k
What Creative Lives Inc does
Mission
Creative lives helps children prepare for their future and thrive in body, mind, and spirit through a holistic approach to teaching and parenting. We advance a framework for wise education, developed by educator ellen tadd, through professional training programs for adults nationwide. The framework supports whole-child development and strengthens the well-being, effectiveness, and collaboration of educators, parents, and caregivers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, creative lives piloted a cohort training program in a framework for wise education, serving 27 early and elementary educators from vermont and new hampshire. The program trained cohesive teams of educators from the same schools and centers, strengthening individual growth while improving collaboration, consistency, and student outcomes. Participants devoted approximately 110 hours to training, including coursework, applied practice, peer learning, and classroom implementation. The program included two sequential courses (foundations 1 and foundations 2), site visits, and a closing retreat. Several participants elected to earn graduate credit through southern new hampshire university. Program outcomes and effectiveness educator outcomes (post-training compared to pre-training): - 77% reported feeling regularly joyful in their work (30% pre-training). - 73% reported regularly making wise decisions at work (33% pre-training). - 79% reported moving effectively between leading and listening (27% pre- training). - 89% strongly agreed the training improved their ability to support children's learning and potential. - 93% agreed or strongly agreed they now have a more complete…
$114,753 spent$1,562 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $114,753.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $320k to $153k (−52%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2018 12% · 2019 9% · 2020 3% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CREATIVE LIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $129k → $349k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 LIVES 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 LIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CREATIVE LIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 84% · 2019 60% · 2020 67% · 2021 71% · 2022 68% · 2023 68% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of CREATIVE LIVES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CREATIVE LIVES INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
CREATIVE LIVES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CREATIVE LIVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $230k on record.
- VT$191k
- FL$40k
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 LIVES 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE LIVES INC: 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 LIVES INC?
- CREATIVE LIVES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,553,169 to it, the largest being THE JAMES AND REBECCA MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($677,647). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE LIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,553,169 in grants to CREATIVE LIVES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE LIVES INC?
- THE JAMES AND REBECCA MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $677,647 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE LIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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