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$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$227k
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$628kArts & Culture$529kEnvironment$485kEducation$421kInternational$263kPhilanthropy$247kCommunity Improvement$160kHousing & Shelter$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $445k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $767k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC$227,000
FUTURE READY FIVE$200,000
MAASAI EDUCATION FOUNDATION$75,000
STAR HOUSE$60,000
KALEIDOSCOPE YOUTH CENTER INC$55,000
MARK SEVEN DEAF FOUNDATION INC$50,000
ARC OF APPALACHIA PRESERVE SYSTEM$50,000
COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD$50,000
WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$45,000
SERENITY STREET FOUNDATION INC$37,500
HOUSE OF HOPE FOR ALCOHOLICS INC$37,500
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$35,000
BARD PRISON INITIATIVE$30,000
MARYLAND DEAF COMMUNITY CENTER$30,000
MIDDLE EAST CHILDRENS ALLIANCE$30,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP MEDICAL DEPT: $15k → 9%FUTURE READY FIVE: $200k → 15%COLUMBUS WORKS INC: $4k → 15%SERENITY STREET FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 15%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

NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
26

Total granted

$1.0M
$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $977k 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
Arts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalHealthEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $229k · revenue +41%
  • PM
    PRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +53%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • ZH
    ZORA'S HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -45%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN DEAF SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IK
    I KNOW I CAN
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +3%

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
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
2
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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3
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
4
Columbus Compact Corporation

Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.

Community Improvement
5
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
6
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
7
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
8
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

—
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
11
The Democracy Collaborative Foundation Inc

See schedule othe democracy collaborative was established in 2000 to advance understanding of democracy for the 21st century and to promote emerging strategies and innovations in community development that enhance democratic life. in…

Education
12
Citizens Utility Board of Ohio

The citizens utility board of ohio (cub ohio) works on behalf of residential and small business utility customers. with membership across the state, cub ohio works for cheaper bills, reliable service, transparency, consumer rights, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Preventing Tobacco Addiction. 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 backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Foundations
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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr12%11%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr20%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%10%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr20%40%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
11%
8,036/74,240

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

64 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. 64 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
38/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $325,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC — $175,000 · OtherPRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INCROCKY MOUNTAIN DEAF SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherMark Seven Deaf Foundation — $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD — $50,000 · OtherUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc — $70,000 · OtherARC OF APPALACHIA — $50,000 · Other+27 more — $487,335 · Other+27 moreCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $288,516 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $227,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL…STAR HOUSE — $60,000 · PhilanthropySTAR HOUSEFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $229,000 · HealthPLANNED P…Preventing Tobacco Addiction — $20,000 · HealthPreventin…FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES OF EAST CENTRAL OHIO — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $10,000 · HealthMAASAI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $112,500 · InternationalMAASAI ED…THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI — $90,000 · InternationalTHE COLUM…MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $30,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EA…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…UE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 · International+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalFUTURE READY FIVE — $200,000 · Human ServicesFUTURE RE…SERENITY STREET FOUNDATION — $37,500 · Human ServicesSERENITY …MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL D…+1 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesZORA'S HOUSE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND DEAF COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OPERATING CORPORATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWellity Education — $21,000 · Arts & CultureMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureVOICECORPS READING SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $122,500 · EducationBARD COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $10,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Education
Other$1,357,335Philanthropy$605,516Health$269,000International$262,500Human Services$256,500Arts & Culture$216,000Education$172,500

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $325,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $288,516 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $229,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $227,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFUTURE READY FIVE — $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC — $175,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $122,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAASAI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $112,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetZORA'S HOUSE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI — $90,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetARC OF APPALACHIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMark Seven Deaf Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI KNOW I CAN — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERENITY STREET FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 1y, 37% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE FOR RECOVERY INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND DEAF COMMUNITY CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OPERATING CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRedwood Coast Land Conservancy — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWellity Education — $21,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetVETERAN COMPANION ANIMAL SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetPreventing Tobacco Addiction — $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOff-The-Grid Missions — $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeaf Initiatives Inc — $10,835 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICECORPS READING SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMPDRUG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI FRANKLIN COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

Columbus FoundationIngram-White Castle F…American Electric Pow…Cardinal Health Found…United Way of Central…Harry C Moores Founda…L Brands FoundationSiemer Family Foundat…Encova Foundation of …Columbus Jewish Found…The William H Davis D…OhioHealth Corporation
Columbus FoundationOH53.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Harry C Moores Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Columbus Jewish Foundation · The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation · OhioHealth Corporation

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 Crane Family 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 · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Crane Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Crane Family 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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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