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$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$628kArts & Culture$529kEnvironment$485kEducation$421kInternational$263kPhilanthropy$247kCommunity Improvement$160kHousing & Shelter$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $575k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KALEIDOSCOPE YOUTH CENTER INC$100,000
ARC OF APPALACHIA PRESERVE SYSTEM$100,000
THE BUCKEYE RANCH$100,000
UNVERFERTH HOUSE INC$75,000
YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$50,000
OHIO LOCAL INFORMATION INITIATIVE DBA SIGNAL OHIO$50,000
COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD$50,000
WOSU PUBLIC MEDIA$50,000
I KNOW I CAN$40,000
ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLS$30,000
PROMUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$25,000
SEA CHANGE INCORPORATED$15,000
OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER$10,000
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 (FY18–25, $357k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIP MEDICAL DEPT: $15k → 9%FUTURE READY FIVE: $200k → 15%COLUMBUS WORKS INC: $4k → 15%SERENITY STREET FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 15%THE BUCKEYE RANCH: $100k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 17 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
45

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $229k · revenue +41%
  • PM
    PRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +53%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $227k · revenue -7%
  • FR
    FUTURE READY FIVE
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -62%
  • ZH
    ZORA'S HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -45%
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
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
2
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
3
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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4
Ohio Business Roundtable

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

—
5
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
6
Philanthropy Ohio

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

Philanthropy
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
Columbus Compact Corporation

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

Community Improvement
9
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
10
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Ohio Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
40/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $325,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INC: $200,000 · OtherPRO MUSICA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF COLUMBUS INCCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARDI KNOW I CAN: $80,000 · OtherKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc: $170,000 · OtherKaleidoscope Youth Center IncARC OF APPALACHIA: $150,000 · OtherARC OF APPALACHIAUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUPPER ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+30 more: $607,335 · Other+30 moreCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $288,516 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATI…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $227,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CEN…STAR HOUSE: $60,000 · PhilanthropySTAR HOUSEFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyFUTURE READY FIVE: $200,000 · Human ServicesFUTURE READY…THE BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE BUCKEYE …THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CE…SERENITY STREET FOUNDATION: $37,500 · Human ServicesSERENITY STR…MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $229,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…Unverferth House Inc: $75,000 · HealthUnverferth…Preventing Tobacco Addiction: $20,000 · HealthPreventing…+3 more: $20,000 · Health+3 moreZORA'S HOUSE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO LOCAL INFORMATIONAL INTIATIVE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND DEAF COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OPERATING CORPORATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWellity Education: $21,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET METROPOLITAN INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureVOICECORPS READING SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMAASAI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $112,500 · InternationalTHE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI: $90,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $30,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · InternationalUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $122,500 · EducationODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $30,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationSea Change Incorporated: $15,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $10,000 · Education
Other$1,732,335Philanthropy$605,516Human Services$406,500Health$344,000Arts & Culture$266,000International$262,500Education$217,500

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 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: $200,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetKaleidoscope Youth Center Inc: $170,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetARC OF APPALACHIA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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 BUCKEYE RANCH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI: $90,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetI KNOW I CAN: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTAR HOUSE: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMark Seven Deaf Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE FOR RECOVERY INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSERENITY STREET FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 1y, 37% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND DEAF COMMUNITY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRedwood Coast Land Conservancy: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OPERATING CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWellity Education: $21,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetPreventing Tobacco Addiction: $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetVETERAN COMPANION ANIMAL SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSea Change Incorporated: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMENTUM-EXCELLENCE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOff-The-Grid Missions: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetDeaf Initiatives Inc: $10,835 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMPDRUG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

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

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 Crane Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crane Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 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 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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