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CREATE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 23-7248582 TUPELO, MS

Revenue 2025
$23,645,992
Expenses 2025
$24,244,940

Program services were 90.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T310
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 1053

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MICHAEL K CLAYBORNE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $299,295
    From this org
    $299,295
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $299,295
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $299,295

  • EDDIE BLAKELEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $147,519
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $147,519
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

  • JUANITA FLOYD

    SENIOR V.P.

    Total calculated
    $143,000
    From this org
    $143,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • KRISTY LUSE

    VP - TOYOTA

    Total calculated
    $129,247
    From this org
    $129,247
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MATT BOGUE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY CHILDS

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BO COLLINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHIL FAULKNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT HALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA HAWKINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIFFANNIE HEDIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIE HENRY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CLAY HOMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACK REED JR

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIRK LEWIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RANDY LONG

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBIN MCCORMICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LUKE MONTGOMERY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MILLETTE NABORS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID RUMBARGER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR DAVID SHAW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KYLE SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ORMA SMITH

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHANE SPEES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BILLYE JEAN STROUD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $23,645,992
    Expenses
    $24,244,940
    Contributions
    $17,961,104
    Grants paid
    $19,934,838
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $26,192,583
    Expenses
    $22,369,025
    Contributions
    $21,194,107
    Grants paid
    $19,280,326
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,231,092
    Expenses
    $14,512,145
    Contributions
    $18,546,090
    Grants paid
    $11,966,150
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $17,703,695
    Expenses
    $14,742,729
    Contributions
    $14,938,033
    Grants paid
    $13,043,632

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

  • DISBURSEMENTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS

    $9,304,876

    2025

  • DONOR DIRECTED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES

    $8,556,420

    2024

  • DISBURSEMENTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS

    $8,152,944

    2024

  • DONOR DIRECTED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES

    $7,784,274

    2025

  • DISBURSEMENTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS

    $5,428,392

    2023

  • DISBURSEMENTS FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS

    $5,329,144

    2022

  • DONOR DIRECTED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES

    $5,137,573

    2022

  • DONOR DIRECTED TO VARIOUS CHARITIES

    $3,901,308

    2023

  • ENDOWMENT FUND DISTRIBUTIONS

    $1,176,006

    2024

  • ENDOWMENT FUND DISTRIBUTIONS

    $1,136,724

    2025

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

Related partnerships on its 2025 return

Related corporations and trusts on its 2025 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.