· Private foundation
Crane Fund for Widows and Children
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k943 grants · $3.9M
- $10k–50k42 grants · $577k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHUNHUI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| Holly House | $35,000 |
| Asociacin Mexicana de Ayuda a Nios con Cncer en Quertaro IAP | $22,500 |
| FoundCare | $22,000 |
| Barnwell Community Soup Kitchen | $20,000 |
| Mahdlo | $17,500 |
| Casa Hogar San Pablo IAP | $17,500 |
| Community Recreation Association Inc (CRA) | $15,000 |
| Red Crescent UAE | $15,000 |
| The Citizens Foundation USA | $15,000 |
| Senses Residential and Day Care for Special Needs | $15,000 |
| Renewal Foundation Inc | $15,000 |
| Dream Foundation | $15,000 |
| Pals Programs | $13,500 |
| Goshen Boys and Girls Clubs of Elkhart County | $12,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $560k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 961 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC2× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +75%
- TBTHE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC2× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +8%
- AUALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC2× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- AMAsociacion Mexicana de Ayuda a Ninos con Cancer Queretaro I.A.P.one grant, 2021 · $20k
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +50%- ALAssociation Les Restaurants du Coeur de Haute Savoieone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
Provide services in response to individual need
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mauri 4 the Win. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
499 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. 499 of the 1,019 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 FOUNDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds PALS Programs ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds BETHANY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVFREE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds Boyer Children's Clinic ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAINEERS ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · Genuardi Family Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Quest for the Best · J M Smith Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Lee Bank Foundation 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 Fund for Widows and Children 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.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Child Inc — 71% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Postpartum Support International — 43% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Center Stage Theatre Inc — 16% of income from government
- Independence Northwest Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Berkshire Dream Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- Foundcare Inc — 6% of income from government
- Triangle Community Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc — 4% of income from government
- Impact Melanoma Inc — 3% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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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