Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
The Crete Collective
The Crete Collective (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,750 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($33,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $377k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $366k
What The Crete Collective does
Mission
The Crete Collective exists to support new and existing churches in neglected and vulnerable Black and Brown neighborhoods. We achieve this mission by providing funding and training to local church leaders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
For 2024, we continued our mission to plant churches in neglected and vulnerable Black and Brown neighborhoods. We achieved the following:1.We continued funding our supported church plantsUpdate on the 2020 CohortIn 2020, we selected three church plants for funding support:Christ the Redeemer (Pine Bluff, AR)Acts Church (Yonkers, NY)Bluegrass Community Church (Lexington, KY)In the summer of 2022, we completed our first 2-year MOU with these plants. In 2024, we completed our second 2-year MOU, which completes our initial commitment to these church plants. Going forward, we will assess each churchs need for continued funding and stability. Acts Church and Christ the Redeemer continued as local congregations hosting public services and serving their communities.In 2024, Bluegrass Community Church closed as a congregation. Their MOU was terminated.Update on the 2021 CohortIn 2021, we selected four new church plants for funding support:Congress Heights Community Church (Washington, DC)Identity Church (Daytona, FL)The Light (West Palm Beach)The West (Houston, TX)These plants completed their initial two years of funding on June 30, 2023. They began their second 2-year MOU in July…
$366,521 spentof which $340,000 as grants$376,749 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $366,521.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $340k to $586k (+72%).
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 The Crete Collective’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $9k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Crete Collective’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
The Crete Collective leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 The Crete Collective.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
53% of The Crete Collective'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 $53k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Crete Collective is better cushioned than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Crete Collective
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Crete Collective: 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 Crete Collective?
- The Crete Collective (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,750 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($33,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Crete Collective have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $111,750 in grants to The Crete Collective, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Crete Collective?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Crete Collective find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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