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Crane Family Foundation

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.

$26k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,275
Organizations funded a year
6 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$188k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Crane Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$26k42%
FY202313$28k31%
FY20226$6k67%
FY202114$8k57%
FY202023$48k74%
FY201916$34k44%
FY201817$24k41%
FY201720$19kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Religion$43kInternational$38kCommunity Improvement$31kRecreation & Sports$19kYouth Development$17kCrime & Legal$15kHuman Services$9kEducation$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
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WY
CA
CO
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TN
DC
LA
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FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Good Samaritan Ministries$29,54661%
Friday Group Enterprises$25,5001n/a
Fly Fishing Collaborative$19,08781%
Cedar Mill Bible Church$6,1316n/a
New Life Christian Church$6,0001n/a
The Contingent$5,00010%
Warner Pacific University$4,20030%
Luis Palau Association$3,90030%
Because People Matter$3,88230%
Peripheral Vision International Inc$2,56320%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Crane Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Good Samaritan Ministries$29,54661%
Friday Group Enterprises$25,5001n/a
Fly Fishing Collaborative$19,08781%
Cedar Mill Bible Church$6,1316n/a
New Life Christian Church$6,0001n/a
The Contingent$5,00010%
Warner Pacific University$4,20030%
Luis Palau Association$3,90030%
Because People Matter$3,88230%
Peripheral Vision International Inc$2,56320%
Food for the Hungry Inc$2,28340%
Friends of the Children$2,27030%
Global Training Network Inc$2,00010%
Union Gospel Mission$1,0301n/a
Imago Dei Church Inc$1,0001n/a
Mi Casa International$1,00010%
Native American Youth and Family Center$1,00010%
Alpha USA$1,00010%
Door to Grace$53510%
Artists in Christian Testimony Inc$50010%
Going Home II$5001n/a
Chosen Org Inc$4832n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$30010%
Salem House of Prayer$25710%
Oregon Food Bank$25530%
Marriageteam$25010%
Quinn Driscoll Foundation$2501n/a
World Vision International$1011n/a
Compassion First$10010%
The Navigators$1001n/a
Trinity Forum Inc$10010%
CaringBridge$5010%
With Love$501n/a
Skatechurch Inc$5010%

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Crane Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGood Samaritan Ministries: $29,546 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFly Fishing Collaborative: $19,087 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetThe Contingent: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWarner Pacific University: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $3,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBecause People Matter: $3,882 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPeripheral Vision International Inc: $2,563 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFood for the Hungry Inc: $2,283 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Children: $2,270 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Training Network Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMi Casa International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNative American Youth and Family Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoor to Grace: $535 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetArtists in Christian Testimony Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalem House of Prayer: $257 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $255 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarriageteam: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCompassion First: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Forum Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSkatechurch Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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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.

About Crane Family Foundation

How much does Crane Family Foundation give?
Crane Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $25,762 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Crane Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (23%), International (20%), Community Improvement (16%).
Who are Crane Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Good Samaritan Ministries ($30k), Friday Group Enterprises ($26k), Fly Fishing Collaborative ($19k).
Does Crane Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Crane Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Crane Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, M J Murdock Charitable Trust.
Where is Crane Family Foundation based?
Crane Family Foundation is based in OR.

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 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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