· Private foundation
Crane Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE | $3,392,933 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $550,000 |
| BETH TFILOH CONGREGATION | $142,051 |
| BAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $109,921 |
| CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU | $100,000 |
| NAMI METRO BALTIMORE | $90,000 |
| NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE | $80,353 |
| WOMENS INSTITUTE OF TORAH SEMINARY FOR GIRLS | $80,000 |
| JEWISH TEEN ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM | $73,000 |
| ETZ CHAIM CENTER | $65,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SHORESH INC | $57,500 |
| TALMUDICAL ACADEMY OF BALTIMORE | $56,619 |
| MT WASHINGTON PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL INC | $50,000 |
| BRIDGES BALTIMORE | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $497k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 34 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +8%
- MHMercy Health Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +3%
- TCTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC5× · 2020–2024 · $490k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MHMercy Health Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +64%
- PEPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZEDone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue -14%
- UOUNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of baltimore torah school, inc., a boys school for grades 8- 12, is to produce young men who are motivated to find satisfaction and joy in learning and serving g-d, capable of advancing to excellent advanced jewish study…
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
Johns hopkins community physicians, inc (jhcp), a valued member of johns hopkins medicine, is a network of medical practices strategically positioned throughout communities in maryland and dc. we strive to meet the needs of each community…
To foster cooperation and understanding within the jewish community, build relationships and mutual understanding with ethnic, racial, and religious groups across maryland, advocate at all levels of government (continued on schedule o)for…
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.
Mentoring Mentors is a Baltimore-based non-profit dedicated to developing future community leaders through exposure that leads to college and career readiness.
Community conferencing center facilitates conferences as a viable method of alternative dispute resolution and restoration of justice.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The yeshiva of greater washington is an orthodox jewish middle school, high school, and rabbinic seminary. our mission is to root each student in torah, plant a passion for learning, and prepare them for life. this is accomplished through…
Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Caring Network Gevuras Yarden Inc. 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
95 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. 95 of the 203 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Teen Advancement Program Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWELS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Shoresh Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMI MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Menucha Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO COUNSELING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds HEBREW SCHOOL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Womens Institute of Torah Seminary for Girls ↗
- Who funds Bnai Nu Inc ↗
- Who funds Sulam Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES BALTIMORE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Center for Jewish Education Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
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 Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Central Baltimore Partnership Inc — 46% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services of Centra — 10% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Village Learning Place Inc — 6% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- Mesivta Kesser Torah of Baltimore Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wide Angle Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Community Center of Baltimore Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gilchrist Hospice Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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