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Crane 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.

$448k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$105,358
States reached, FY2024
18
Total assets, FY2024
$6.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
81% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$105kCommunity Improvement$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kFood & Nutrition$55kHuman Services$53kEducation$37kInternational$8kScience & Tech$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
MI
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NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
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DC
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Top grantees

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

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $105,358 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProject Hood Community Development Corporation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Luke's Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Winds America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCcs Connect Community Services: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMcDowell Lfac: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreer Relief and Resources Agency Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Well Outreach Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Community Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBaby2baby: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Woodlands Christian Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManufacturers Alliance Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJackson Christian School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Marys Outreach Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFurman University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLorain County Community College Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Stanford International School PTSA 6 15 195: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $125 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 28.

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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 Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Crane 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 Foundation

How much does Crane Foundation give?
Crane Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $447,533 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Crane Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (4%), Community Improvement (3%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).
Who are Crane Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ($105k), Project Hood Community Development Corporation ($100k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($25k).
Does Crane 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 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Crane Foundation based?
Crane Foundation is based in NJ.

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 40 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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