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CREATIVITY FOUNDATION

CREATIVITY FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,600 to it, the largest being DA CAPO FUND ($17,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$110k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$1.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Creativity Foundation does

Program

  1. Awarded grants to exceptional organizations that successfully nurture the creativity of young people while tackling pressing social needs in the fields of science

    $95,270 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($43k) Expenses 100 ($71k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 137 ($58k) Expenses 105 ($74k) Net assets 99 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 114 ($48k) Expenses 118 ($84k) Net assets 96 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 210 ($90k) Expenses 240 ($170k) Net assets 88 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 294 ($125k) Expenses 310 ($220k) Net assets 144 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 141 ($60k) Expenses 145 ($103k) Net assets 114 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 125 ($53k) Expenses 96 ($68k) Net assets 125 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 229 ($98k) Expenses 234 ($166k) Net assets 119 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 258 ($110k) Expenses 163 ($115k) Net assets 118 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (258)Expenses (163)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.0M to $1.7M (+64%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.7M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Laurie Kahn

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $9k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
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From the IRS filings of CREATIVITY 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

CREATIVITY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

NY

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CREATIVITY FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CREATIVITY 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CREATIVITY FOUNDATION?
CREATIVITY FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,600 to it, the largest being DA CAPO FUND ($17,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CREATIVITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,600 in grants to CREATIVITY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CREATIVITY FOUNDATION?
DA CAPO FUND is the largest funder on record, with $17,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CREATIVITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), 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