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Ana and Ed McCracken Foundation co Edward R McCracken

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Education$536kArts & Culture$136kHuman Services$12kHealth$7kPhilanthropy$500Other$234k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $89k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$634k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Iowa State University Foundation$40,345
The Willa Cather Foundation$38,452
Leland Stanford Junior University$10,000
Stephens Auditorium Performing Arts$8,500
UnityPoint Health Des Moines Founda$5,000
Iowa State Alumni Association$2,262
Mary Greeley Foundation$2,000
Iowa Poetry Association$1,000
Ames History Foundation$500
Women Care$500
Ames Public Library Friends Foundat$500
The Bridge Home$400
Individual grant recipient$250
Ames Police Foundation$250
Individual grant recipient$250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $8k → 7%Women Care: $500 → 13%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $1k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $500 → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $250 → 7%WOMEN CARE: $500 → 7%WOMEN CARE: $500 → 7%WOMEN CARE: $350 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MN
IL
MA
IA
NJ
CA
NE
NM
DC
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$708k · 20 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
20

Total granted

$708k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +1%
  • TW
    THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +74%
  • TL
    THE LITQUAKE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $132k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • WP
    WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +13%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Van Meter Public Library Foundation
2
Fisher Art Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Sioux City Public Library Foundation

Sioux City Public Library enhancement and support

4
Ferguson Library Foundation
5
Iowa Law School Foundation

The iowa law school foundation provides the university of iowa college of law with a margin of distinction in fulfilling its mission of excellence in teaching, research and services by maintaining funds to use and apply the whole or any…

Education
6
Rubendall Foundation Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
7
Odell Nebraska Public Library
Education
8
University Foundation
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
University of Iowa Research Foundation

The university of iowa research foundation's (uirf) mission is to: advance, develop, increase and extend the progress of science and useful arts through encouraging and assisting investigation, research and education at the state…

11
Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library Association
12
Sff Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aldrich Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%19%<5yr9%0%5–10yr14%19%10–20yr12%19%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr39%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%6%<5yr9%0%5–10yr14%2%10–20yr12%8%20–35yr14%68%35–55yr39%16%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
6%
1,704/29,183

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $477,715 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY+4 more — $7,984 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY — $132,367 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYAMES WRITERS COLLECTIVE — $44,832 · OtherAMES WRITERS COLLECTIVEALEARN — $10,000 · OtherStephens Auditorium Performing Arts — $8,500 · Other+30 more — $38,344 · Other+30 moreTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $100,242 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER…MUSIC FROM ANGEL FIRE — $21,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC FROM ANGEL…THE LITQUAKE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LITQUAKE FOU…+2 more — $4,750 · Arts & CulturePENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $9,654 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST — $1,850 · Human ServicesIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthALDRICH FOUNDATION — $500 · Philanthropy
Education$535,699Other$234,043Arts & Culture$136,492Human Services$11,504Health$7,000Philanthropy$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $477,715 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $100,242 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC FROM ANGEL FIRE — $21,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE LITQUAKE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALEARN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $9,654 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCTAGON CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $4,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSHUTER LIBRARY OF ANGEL FIRE — $3,350 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAMES PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $3,084 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST — $1,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHOI FM — $750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALDRICH FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE FREE LIBRARY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MUSIC FROM ANGEL FIRE
  • Who funds THE LITQUAKE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALEARN
  • Who funds PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC
  • Who funds IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OCTAGON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds SHUTER LIBRARY OF ANGEL FIRE
  • Who funds AMES PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MARY GREELEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST
  • Who funds WILLIAM PENN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds KHOI FM
  • Who funds ALDRICH FOUNDATION

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ana and Ed McCracken Foundation co Edward R McCracken funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ana and Ed McCracken Foundation co Edward R McCracken?

    Find your warmest path to Ana and Ed McCracken Foundation co Edward R McCracken through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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