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CREATE Foundation

EIN 23-7248582Community Development Mississippi Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Northeast Mississippi's community foundation

CREATE is an acronym for Christian Research Education Action Technical Enterprise. Today, the CREATE Foundation is the region's premier philanthropic resource regarding comprehensive charitable planning for individuals, nonprofits, communities, and businesses. CREATE Foundation is committed to good stewardship of the funds entrusted to us. Sound financial practices protect investment principal from erosion, provide a steady stream of income for grants, and add value to investment assets through growth. For more than 35 years, CREATE has been working together with fund donors, grant recipients, organizations and communities, the Foundation is a powerful catalyst for building charitable resources for our region.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

90.58Overall score
out of 100

87.30Financial score
out of 100

96.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$16,037,851

Total expenses · USD$8,181,939

Program expenses

$7,461,928.37 recorded amount

91.2%

Fundraising expenses

$212,730.41 recorded amount

2.6%

Administrative expenses

$490,916.34 recorded amount

6.0%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Michael K. Clayborne
Recorded compensation: $206,823.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 2.52%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for CREATE Foundation
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	96.0
`category` Category	Community Development
`description` Mission & description	CREATE is an acronym for Christian Research Education Action Technical Enterprise. Today, the CREATE Foundation is the region's premier philanthropic resource regarding comprehensive charitable planning for individuals, nonprofits, communities, and businesses. CREATE Foundation is committed to good stewardship of the funds entrusted to us. Sound financial practices protect investment principal from erosion, provide a steady stream of income for grants, and add value to investment assets through growth. For more than 35 years, CREATE has been working together with fund donors, grant recipients, organizations and communities, the Foundation is a powerful catalyst for building charitable resources for our region.
`ein` EIN	23-7248582
`tot_exp` Total expenses	8181939.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.06
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.01
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.026000000000000002
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.912
`fscore` Financial score	87.3
`leader` Recorded leader	Michael K. Clayborne
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	206823.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0252
`motto` Tagline	Northeast Mississippi's community foundation
`name` Charity name	CREATE Foundation
`tot_rev` Total revenue	16037851.0
`score` Overall score	90.58
`state` State code	MS
`subcategory` Subcategory	Community Foundations
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	7461928.368000001
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	212730.41400000002
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	490916.33999999997

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 23-7248582
Source category: Community Development
Source subcategory: Community Foundations
Recorded location: Mississippi (MS)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.