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Carla and David Crane Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational orreligious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for thebenefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish communityfederation of san francisco, the peninsula, marin and sonoma counties.

$837k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$394k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$1.5MEducation$966kRecreation & Sports$716kPhilanthropy$250kArts & Culture$245kAnimals$130kCivil Rights$125kHealth$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $724k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINDEN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION$394,000
LIFE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$330,000
KALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC$50,000
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$15,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$10,000
INSTITUTE ON AGING$10,000
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $10k → 10%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

VT
WA
ID
WI
NY
RI
CA
MO
VA
AR
DC

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 12 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +135% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
24

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+135%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
EnvironmentEducationInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • LS
    LIFE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $391k · revenue +440% · 95% of their budget
  • IT
    ILLUMINATE THE ARTS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +149%
  • MI
    MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    one grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue +18%
  • GG
    GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -10%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
    one grant, 2019 · $150k

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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
10
The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment
11
Sacramento Zoological Society

The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.

Animals
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African Parks Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Advocates for Climate Innovation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersChristian Youth CampsJewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Immigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%6%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%28%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,934

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

42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION — $694,000 · PhilanthropyADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INN…JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $250,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATI…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $35,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropySAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $525,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO PARK…CAMP NEBAGAMON — $95,841 · Recreation & SportsCAMP NEBAGAMONAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $95,000 · Recreation & SportsAFRICAN PARKS FOUN…LIFE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $391,485 · InternationalLIFE SCHOOL FOUN…HIAS INC — $100,000 · InternationalHIAS INCWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $95,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES …RAINFOREST TRUST — $50,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $200,000 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NA…MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC — $120,000 · EnvironmentMALIASILI INIT…RIGHTS AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC — $75,000 · EnvironmentRIGHTS AND RES…MONGABAY ORG CORP — $60,000 · EnvironmentMONGABAY ORG C…PLANET INDONESIA — $50,000 · EnvironmentPLANET INDONES…SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM — $30,000 · EnvironmentISLAND CONSERVATION — $25,000 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $275,000 · EducationThe Research …Civic Space Foundation — $100,000 · EducationCivic Space F…INNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES — $50,000 · EducationINNOVATIVE PO…Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School — $40,000 · EducationBay Area Hybr…AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC — $25,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationILLUMINATE THE ARTS — $150,000 · Arts & CultureKALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureRoot Division — $45,000 · Arts & CultureREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $150,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UN…JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $35,000 · OtherWILDLIFE GUARDIANS — $95,000 · OtherWILDLIFE GUARDIAN…INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA PACIFI…CalMatters — $90,000 · OtherCalMattersBROWN UNIVERSITY — $37,500 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITYDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $60,000 · OtherAMAZON CONSERVATI…+6 more — $70,000 · Other+6 more
Philanthropy$989,000Recreation & Sports$715,841International$636,485Environment$570,000Education$525,000Arts & Culture$245,000Other$687,500

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 budgetADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION — $694,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $525,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLIFE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $391,485 over 5y, 95% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $275,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetILLUMINATE THE ARTS — $150,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetMALIASILI INITIATIVES INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIAS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCivic Space Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP NEBAGAMON — $95,841 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE GUARDIANS — $95,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $95,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCalMatters — $90,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP — $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPLANET INDONESIA — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetINNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRoot Division — $45,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School — $40,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAHARA CONSERVATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Inc San Francisco Section — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINSTITUTE ON AGING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Alexander Foundation …The James Irvine Foun…Gordon E and Betty I …Evelyn and Walter Haa…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The David and Lucile …BAND FoundationJohn and Marcia Goldm…
The San Francisco FoundationCA20.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Alexander Foundation Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · BAND Foundation · John and Marcia Goldman 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 Carla and David Crane Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Carla and David Crane Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carla and David Crane Foundation 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 44 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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