3Rd Creek Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
421729283
IRS 990-PF coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-PF 2025
Location
Incline Village, NV, USA
Phone
7757209355
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Private Independent Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$160,446
Expenses
$89,969

Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Overview

Mission

Private Independent Foundations

What it reported funding in 2025

The foundation reported 5 grants totaling $68,000. The stated grant purposes included to enhance food, nutrition and income security through raising the capacities of 100 small holder farmers that are living in chigalu community in blantyre district. includes goat loan program, advancing clean charcoal briquette manufacturers and job creation for ultra poor, unemployed persons, and support investment accelerator for tanzanian enterprises positively impacting poor through product or job creation, plus 2 other reported purposes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 92% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 84% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
  • Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. The filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.

Rating breakdown

  • Grant Deployment: 100
  • Cost Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency: 100
  • Compliance: 98
  • Endowment Health: 90

Detailed rating inputs

Grant Deployment

  • Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Cost Efficiency

  • Grant expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76; 43rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency

  • Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100

Compliance

  • Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
    • Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
    • Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
    • Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
    • Payment to a government official: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
    • Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
    • Excess business holdings: Pass
    • Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
    • Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
    • Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
    • Attempt to influence an election: Pass
    • Grants to individuals: Pass
    • Grants to organizations: Fail
    • Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
    • Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
    • Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
  • Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100

Endowment Health

  • Endowment-health comparison: 28.69; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
  • Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
  • Trustees: Filed trustees detail
  • Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
  • Investments: 90th percentile for endowment coverage
  • Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Grants to organizations not reported.