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Crawford Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Learning Project | $120,000 |
| Solheim Lutheran Home a California Nonstock Corporation | $25,000 |
| Pilgrim School | $20,000 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $15,500 |
| St Botolph Club Foundation | $15,500 |
| Yale University | $10,000 |
| WGBH (fbo GBH Educational Foundation) | $10,000 |
| Runway for Recovery | $10,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $10,000 |
| Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc | $6,000 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $5,000 |
| Pitzer College | $5,000 |
| Native Plant Trust | $5,000 |
| Friends of the Public Garden | $5,000 |
| Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +37% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- TLTHE LEARNING PROJECT INC4× · 2022–2025 · $425k · revenue +22%
- BBBOSTON BAROQUE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $164k · revenue +75%
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $118k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HFHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +25%
- BOBRING ON THE MUSIC INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -62%
WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +98%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Garden Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 51 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 60 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
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 LEARNING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BAROQUE INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER & BALDWIN SUGAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL CREATORS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds BRING ON THE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER ↗
- Who funds OJAI VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Art Jewelry Forum ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ART OGUNQUIT D/B/A OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION 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: Boston Foundation Inc · William L Murphy & Claire M Corcoran Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ibm International Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Renaissance Charitable 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 Crawford Foundation 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.
- Sherrill House Inc — 31% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- New England Philharmonic Inc — 3% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Baroque Inc — 2% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 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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