· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| St Botolph Club Foundation | $15,500 |
| Sarah Lawrence College | $15,500 |
| Runway for Recovery | $10,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $10,000 |
| WGBH (fbo GBH Educational Foundation) | $10,000 |
| Yale University | $10,000 |
| Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc | $6,000 |
| Native Plant Trust | $5,000 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $5,000 |
| Friends of the Public Garden | $5,000 |
| Pitzer College | $5,000 |
| Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum | $3,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BOBRING ON THE MUSIC INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -62%
WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +98%- HFHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +25%
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.
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.
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 60 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 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 FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- 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 GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Valley Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BRING ON THE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- 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 Art Jewelry Forum ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ART OGUNQUIT D/B/A OGUNQUIT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Crawford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crawford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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