· Private foundation
Cronk 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.
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 $10k39 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST PATRICKS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $52,000 |
| MISSION OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS | $40,000 |
| ST ANN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,600 |
| BENET ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY | $1,500 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $1,400 |
| LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH | $1,350 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $1,328 |
| ST LAWRENCE SEMINARY | $1,050 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $800 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $780 |
| PACREATIC CENTER ACTION NETWORK | $500 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $450 |
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, $11k) 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $505k · revenue +47%
- CECHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION4× · 2020–2024 · $166k · revenue +81%
- LYLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- TBTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2021 · $75k
- HLHOME LIFE COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -94%
- SFStudents for Life of America Incone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 77 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 SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HOME LIFE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds TWO RIVERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD ↗
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: Farrell Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cronk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cronk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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