· Private foundation
Cronin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $801k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Marshall Public Schools | $242,317 |
| City of Marshall | $200,000 |
| Oaklawn Hospital | $175,000 |
| City of Marshall | $100,000 |
| Playright Sports Academy | $84,000 |
| Marshall Public Schools | $45,000 |
| Marshall Public Schools | $30,000 |
| Fountain Cinic | $22,400 |
| Brass Band of Battle Creek | $10,000 |
| Marshall Public Schools | $10,000 |
| Scouting America Michigan Crossroads Council | $5,000 |
| Albion Care Alliance | $3,000 |
| City of Marshall-Terra Nova Collective | $3,000 |
| Marshall Public Schools | $2,386 |
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 (FY20–22, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +25% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EEELLA E M BROWN CHARITABLE CIRCLE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +25%
- BBBrass Band of Battle Creek4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +34%
FOUNTAIN CLINIC2× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +361%
Funded once
- IAInnovate Albion Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +314% · 47% of their budget
- BCBattle Creek Family YMCAone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $48k
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.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Combining leadership and teamwork to provide caring, high quality, efficient, and affordable primary health care for all segments of the community.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To improve the communitys health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health services, health education, and research. To provide compassionate, quality health services according to the spiritual,…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Bucksport regional health center's mission is to provide medical, dental and other health and community services in the bucksport, maine area. it is a federally qualified health cener.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Provide public library services
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 ELLA E M BROWN CHARITABLE CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Innovate Albion Inc ↗
- Who funds Brass Band of Battle Creek ↗
- Who funds EASTEND STUDIO & GALLERY ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REGION 3B AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds Binder Park Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDER CREEK CONSERVATION CLUB ↗
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: Battle Creek Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Albion Community Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cronin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cronin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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