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Albert J Crosson Family Foundation at a glance

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Albert J Crosson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$204kHuman Services$76kPhilanthropy$67kHealth$60kArts & Culture$43kHousing & Shelter$39kEmployment$27kReligion$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$347k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$35,000
RISE HYRE$25,000
BIG BROTHERS$20,500
STARS STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION$2,000
CALVARY SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY CHURCH$1,000
FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES$1,000
ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESTSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $150 → 14%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$513k · 21 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
26

Total granted

$513k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+27%

Still filing today

38%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationEmploymentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +55%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $29k · revenue +12%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +27%
  • MD
    MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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3
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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4
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
5
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
6
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
7
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
8
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
9
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
10
For the Children

To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…

Recreation & Sports
11
Florence Crittenton Services of Orance County Inc

Crittenton provides transformative behavioral health services, supportive housing, and foster care to children, young adults, and families to build a better future.

Human Services
12
The Open Door Network

To stop domestic violence and sexual assault in kern county and assist survivors in reclaiming their lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The American Gold Star Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $118,950 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSST JUDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $64,000 · OtherST JUDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONBIG BROTHERS: $62,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERSOSCAR MA COMPANY: $40,000 · OtherOSCAR MA COMPANYAshland House: $33,900 · OtherAshland HouseIndividual grant recipient: $27,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+28 more: $118,442 · Other+28 moreSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Human ServicesSTARS AND…OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR…+2 more: $1,150 · Human ServicesCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $28,550 · HealthMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 · Health+2 more: $700 · HealthRISEHYRE INC: $25,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $2,000 · EmploymentWINDWARD SCHOOL: $6,850 · EducationIMPACT GIVING: $1,250 · EducationSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $5,500 · AnimalsDowntown Dog Rescue: $500 · AnimalsFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $3,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,650 · Philanthropy
Other$465,292Human Services$51,150Health$34,450Employment$27,000Education$8,100Animals$6,000Philanthropy$5,650

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $28,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRISEHYRE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWINDWARD SCHOOL: $6,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANYON CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIVING CHILDREN HOPE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT GIVING: $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTRENGTH IN SUPPORT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN GOLD STAR HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Dog Rescue: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHASE ONE FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVINGHELP GROUP: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAllies for Every Child Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RISEHYRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEBRASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANYON CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVING CHILDREN HOPE ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT GIVING ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds STRENGTH IN SUPPORT ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN GOLD STAR HOME ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Communi…The Devto Support Fou…Sempra FoundationEdwards Lifesciences …California Community …O L Halsell FoundationJohnny Carson Foundat…Samueli FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Annenberg Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…
Orange County Community FoundationCA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · California Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Albert J Crosson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert J Crosson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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