Oregon · Nonprofit
SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE
SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,862 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,805). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $556k
What Scrap Creative Reuse does
Programs
Education programs:scrap's education programs provide a unique opportunity for youth (pre-k through 12) and adults to learn the fundamentals of creative reuse and resourcefulness. Students engage in rich, hands-on programming that emphasizes sustainable behavior change. In fy25, these programs served 8,234 youth and 3,176 adults.through creativity and art techniques, participants transform reclaimed materialssourced from home or scrap storesinto sustainable projects. A variety of program options are offered for teachers, students, and families, including camp scrap, scrap at school, scouting outings, teacher trainings, and private workshops. Collectively, these programs reached hundreds of families last fiscal year.
$255,993 spent$112,037 earned by the program19% of program spendingCreative reuse center (crc):scrap's creative reuse centers are programs that offer the opportunity for community members to participate in our mission. Scrap accepts donations of clean, reusable creative materials (I.e. Fabric, bottle caps, paper, art supplies, craft items, yarn, notions) and make them available to everyone at a low cost. Educators, crafters, creative entrepreneurs, families, and makers are all able to stretch their budgets by purchasing reclaimed materials at a fraction of the cost of regular retail store. In fy25, scrap diverted 129.9 tons (259,796 lbs.) of material from the waste stream. Scrap Creative Reuse centers are located in ann arbor, mi; baltimore, md; portland, or; and richmond, va.
$1,035,494 spent$1,229,258 earned by the program77% of program spendingVolunteer program:each of scrap's four locations relies on volunteers to help fulfill our mission. Our volunteer programs reflect our strong belief in the essential role volunteerism plays in building community. Volunteering at scrap provides individuals and groups the opportunity to contribute their time, skills, and passion while supporting creativity, sustainability, and education in their local communities.in fy25, scrap volunteers contributed 13,258 hours, with an average of 137 active volunteers engaged each month.
$49,659 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,341,146.
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 2024 to 2025, from $652k to $2.6M (+301%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2021 18% · 2022 13% · 2023 17% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Kimberly Maruska
National executive director
Board chair
Tibora Gircyz-Blum
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $9k → $3k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE’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
SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 92% · 2022 56% · 2023 96% — 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
25% of SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
71% of SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE's revenue grew 48% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE: 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 SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE?
- SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,862 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($30,805). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $108,862 in grants to SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 12 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