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Cron Family 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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$88kEducation$70kInternational$51kEnvironment$32kReligion$13kPhilanthropy$9kCommunity Improvement$3kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$376k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CU FOUNDATION$25,000
THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE$5,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$2,500
LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE$2,500
ONEHOPE$2,000
MATINECOCK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$200
EAST HAMPTON MEALS ON WHEELS$100
NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SERVE HAITI INC: $200 → 13%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
SD
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 17 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$187k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-10%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +79%
  • TN
    THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +8%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • OH
    ONE HOPE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -2%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
11
Lenox Hill Hospital Medical Pc

Lenox hill hospital medical, pc is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is One Hope Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
13/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONE HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherONE HOPE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $13,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN: $12,500 · OtherNEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN+20 more: $12,675 · Other+20 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $31,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATI…COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATIO…LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC: $7,500 · EducationLEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INCNew York University: $7,000 · EducationNew York UniversityST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE+1 more: $2,000 · EducationTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $30,850 · EnvironmentTHE NORTH SHO…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,500 · Health+2 more: $350 · HealthTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $7,000 · PhilanthropyALEXANDER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,500 · Human ServicesALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $2,000 · Human ServicesSERVEHAITI INC: $200 · Human ServicesEPIC PLAYERS INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$123,675Education$77,500Environment$31,850Health$21,850Philanthropy$16,000Human Services$4,700Arts & Culture$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC: $30,850 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE HORSE HOLLOW SCHOLARSHIP AND RELIEF FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEPIC PLAYERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE TO WORLD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXANDER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTILL I RUN: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATINECOCK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $300 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS RHODE ISLAND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAVER DAM WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVEHAITI INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANDAS NETWORKORG: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundRenaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cron Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cron Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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