· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fly Fishing Collaborative | $7,275 |
| Good Samaritan Ministries | $5,000 |
| Florin and Surpriza Dunca | $3,626 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,260 |
| Centeredorg | $1,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $936 |
| National Student Leadership Forum | $900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $650 |
| Village Church | $615 |
| Friends of the Children | $500 |
| Oregon Food Bank | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Crane Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 76%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGood Samaritan Ministries6× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +27%
- FFFLY FISHING COLLABORATIVE8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +47%
- LPLuis Palau Association3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- FGFRIDAY GROUP ENTERPRISESone grant, 2020 · $26k
- NLNEW LIFE CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $6k
- YLYoung Life Foundationone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Good Samaritan Ministries ↗
- Who funds FLY FISHING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE CONTINGENT ↗
- Who funds WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds BECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER ↗
- Who funds PERIPHERAL VISION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MI CASA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Alpha USA ↗
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.
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
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.
- Going Home Ii: 100% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Warner Pacific University: 14% of income from government
- The Contingent: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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