Georgia · Nonprofit
The Craddock Center Inc
The Craddock Center Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,387 to it, the largest being THE WARREN AND AUGUSTA HUME FOUNDATION INC ($243,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $414k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $530k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What The Craddock Center Inc does
Mission
The Craddock Center delivers educational and cultural programs to children, families, and communities, primarily in Southern Appalachia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Childrens Enrichment Program (CEP) is the delivery of music, stories, and joy to 1,166 pre-K and Head Start students in twenty schools in three states. These children also receive gifts of hand-knitted hats, gloves, and hand-made wooden toys. Our Arts Specialists have a combined 175 years of experience in early childhood education, music education, and storytelling. Through the use of music, instruments, movement, puppets, and storytelling, their weekly classes help kids build vocabulary and self esteem as well as motor and rhythmic skills.
$145,709 spent$900 earned by the program68% of program spendingThe Smart Babies program provides parents of children ages 0-5 with skills to become the best first teachers for their babies. Parents attend three workshops to learn effective, age-specific methods to help their babies minds develop. They also receive tools, toys, and books to use with their children. The program assists with developing language and literacy, math and reasoning, and social and emotional learning, among other targets, using the Ready for Kindergarten curriculum.
$21,845 spent10% of program spendingBooks to Children - during fiscal year 2025, we provided 4,700 new books to children through the Childrens Enrichment Program. We also provided 1,129 new books and 1,230 nearly-new books to other nonprofit organizations in our community to distribute to the children they serve. Literacy research shows a correlation between the number of age appropriate books a child has at home and the number of years of school that child will complete. Having books to hold and peruse helps children to learn skills such as the relationship between pictures and story, as well as the orientation and direction of print.
$18,888 spent9% of program spendingThe Living Room provided 86 families with furniture and household goods during FY25, free of charge, to help them through periods of crisis.
$16,419 spent8% of program spendingCommunity Outreach provided organizations in our community with the ability to utilize our building for meetings/events 85 times during FY25.
$4,853 spent2% of program spendingSongs and Stories in Honor of Helen Lewis is an annual event we host to celebrate life in Appalachia through music and storytelling.
$2,789 spent1% of program spendingThrough Summer Sendoff, we provide CEP students with materials to bridge the learning gap that can occur in the summer months.
$2,705 spent1% of program spendingCraddock Cares-we gave 93 kits to emergency personnel for people in crisis; Welcome Newborn-we provided kits to mothers of newborns.
$509 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $213,717.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+28%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of The Craddock Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $21k → $55k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 The Craddock Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
The Craddock Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 48% · 2019 27% · 2020 29% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 36% — 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
60% of The Craddock Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
The Craddock Center Inc draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
The Craddock Center Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Craddock Center 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 The Craddock Center 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 The Craddock Center Inc?
- The Craddock Center Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $530,387 to it, the largest being THE WARREN AND AUGUSTA HUME FOUNDATION INC ($243,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Craddock Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $530,387 in grants to The Craddock Center Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Craddock Center Inc?
- THE WARREN AND AUGUSTA HUME FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $243,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Craddock Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 19 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