Washington · Nonprofit
EARTH CREATIVE
EARTH CREATIVE (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,650 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($82,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Earth Creative does
Mission
Raise awareness about climate change and climate justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS: Earth Creative (EC) grew its community of artists to 103. These brilliant artists all have a focus on climate change and climate justice and EC provides these individuals with a platform to present their work, share ideas, and seek support for new projects. The growth of this community of artists is on-going with an average of three artists added each month. Launched a new series of EC-produced videos featuring EC artists as well as EC Scientists. Earth Creative presented a new show entitled "Artists Unite for the Planet" at the Perry and Carlson Gallery in Mt Vernon, WA. 45 Earth Creative Artists were featured for the entire month of May, attracting nearly 12,000 visitors. Terra Nostra, the EC flagship documentary production was presented at the St. Louis Central Public Library in partnership with the organization "Artists for Climate Awareness" From August 1 to November 1, EC was invited to feature some of its artists at the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle. The climate-focused exhibit was located in the main lobby and central grand staircase and provided EC with continuous exposure for three months in the heart of the city.
$50,412 spent79% of program spendingEDUCATION & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Earth Creative's Science & Education focus develops content into artistic and science-based educational resources for formal and informal education for students of all ages. It develops a network of participating schools and teachers and organizes future in-person and virtual/remote school visits by artists and scientists. We launched the new Student Climate Project as our most ambitious educational endeavor to date. Students, singly or in groups, will research an area of interest through the lens of climate change and propose a project which results in some sort of shareable product- a research paper, a presentation, an artistic creation or some other cumulative outcome. These projects can be pursued through school coursework with the guidance of a class and teacher, through a student club, or through an internship or other school-guided experience. The projects may focus more on the science side or the artistic side, as long as both are substantially included. "Science" may include the natural sciences and social sciences, as well as applied sciences such as architecture, construction, engineering, urban planning, wastewater management, water…
$13,465 spent21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,877.
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 2023 to 2024, from $64k to $43k (−33%).
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 EARTH CREATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Christophe Chagnard
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $39k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 EARTH CREATIVE’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
EARTH CREATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
55% 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 EARTH CREATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 67% · 2022 61% · 2023 72% — 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
80% of EARTH CREATIVE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
55% of EARTH CREATIVE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $68k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EARTH CREATIVE's revenue fell 66% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like EARTH CREATIVE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EARTH CREATIVE?
- EARTH CREATIVE (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,650 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($82,650). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EARTH CREATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $150,650 in grants to EARTH CREATIVE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARTH CREATIVE?
- AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $82,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARTH CREATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 8 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