Ohio · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS
FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $130 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($130). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $130
- Net assets
- $19k
What FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS does
Mission
To conserve, enhance, and bring recognition to the natural and historic resources in and around the big creek watershed and develop a recreational trail network that connects these resources to each other and the community.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$17,847 spentof which $15,000 as grants47% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$16,078 spent43% of program spendingSee attached sheet for decriptionto develop a greenway-trail through the lower big creek vally in cleveland and through the city of brooklyn. It also includes organizing and co-chairing the biennial greater cleveland trails & greenways conference - held in 2022, and the development of the cleveland land bridge/westshoreway concept alternative - completed in 2022.
$3,709 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,634.
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 2022 to 2023, from $45k to $19k (−58%).
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.
49% of FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Bob Gardin
Executive director
Board chair
Mary Ellen Stasek
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $24 → $34.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS’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
100% of FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130 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
FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS has grown faster than half of the 3,119 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS?
- FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $130 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($130). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $130 in grants to FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BIG CREEKakaBIG CREEK CONNECTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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