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Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
110
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$5.0MAnimals$3.5MHuman Services$1.8MCommunity Improvement$360kEducation$357kHealth$328kArts & Culture$288kYouth Development$273kPhilanthropy$240kOther$6.7M
02FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k93 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $585k
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OGDEN-WEBER ATC FOUNDATION$100,000
EARTHJUSTICE$75,000
PAWS OF JACKSON HOLE$60,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EAST JEFFER$50,000
AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE$50,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$50,000
SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER$50,000
LANTERN HOUSE$50,000
JEFFERSON LAND TRUST$50,000
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT$50,000
OLYMPIC PENINSULA YMCA$40,000
PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$40,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED INC$40,000
UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$40,000
NUZZLES CO$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%K9 CARE MONTANA: $15k → 11%CENTER POLE: $15k → 23%OLYMPIC PENINSULA YMCA: $88k → 12%CLIMB WYOMING: $35k → 10%OLYMPIC PENINSULA YMCA: $40k → 12%CLIMB WYOMING: $30k → 10%CHILD BRIDGE: $15k → 18%OLYMPIC PENINSULA YMCA: $40k → 12%CLIMB WYOMING: $30k → 10%CHILD BRIDGE: $15k → 18%OLYMPIC PENINSULA YMCA: $15k → 12%CLIMB WYOMING: $30k → 10%FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME SERVICES: $15k → 9%CHILD BRIDGE: $15k → 18%CLIMB WYOMING: $30k → 10%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%CLIMB WYOMING: $30k → 10%YMCA MISSOULA: $20k → 9%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%CLIMB WYOMING: $30k → 10%JANNUS INC: $25k → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%CLIMB WYOMING: $20k → 10%JANNUS INC: $25k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $25k → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%JANNUS INC: $25k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $20k → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%JANNUS INC: $20k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $20k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $20k → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $20k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $20k → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 9%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $25k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $25k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $20k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $20k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $20k → 8%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $100k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $25k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $25k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $25k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $20k → 9%MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA: $20k → 9%HELP CENTER INC: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
MT
MN
WI
MA
OR
WY
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
LA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 176 repeat orgs$932k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

176 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

176
77

Total granted

$18M
$817k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+34%

Still filing today

78%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • EARTHJUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +82%
  • JL
    JEFFERSON LAND TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $410k · revenue +186%
  • SA
    STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER
    7× · 2017–2023 · $394k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • UO
    UWF OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $39k
  • AH
    ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF STAR V
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • PF
    PHEASANTS FOREVER
    one grant, 2017 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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2
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
3
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
4
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
5
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
6
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
7
Montana Trout Unlimited

To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.

Recreation & Sports
8
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
9
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
10
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment
11
Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

To create oppurtunites for conservation of natural, scenic, historic, recreational and agricultural values of southwestern idaho's open spaces through collabarative efforts for current and future generations. the land trust indentifies…

Environment
12
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ycc Family Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Hipeexnu Kii U Nuun Wisiix. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterDomestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsLocal History MuseumsYouth Mentoring ProgramsPublic Library OperationsSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesEquine Therapy ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsYmca Youth DevelopmentLocal Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%45%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/200
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,365

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.

04the grantee network

196 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. 196 of the 263 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
77
Early backer (in before they grew)
195/196
Grantees still filing
152/196
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OGDEN WEBER APPLIED TECHNOLOGY COLL — $305,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN COUNTY — $290,000 · OtherST ANNE'S CENTER — $260,000 · Other+93 more — $6,469,300 · Other+93 moreEARTHJUSTICE — $520,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEJEFFERSON LAND TRUST — $410,000 · EnvironmentJEFFERSON LAND TRUSTAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $370,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATIONTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC — $320,000 · EnvironmentTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INCSagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc — $292,000 · EnvironmentSagebrush Steppe Land Trust In…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $260,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $255,000 · EnvironmentBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC — $206,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $205,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $170,000 · Environment+30 more — $1,903,500 · Environment+30 moreSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER — $393,500 · AnimalsSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELT…SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $360,000 · AnimalsSNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SH…Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS — $330,000 · AnimalsProgressive Animal We…PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $230,000 · AnimalsPAWS - PROVIDING ANIM…Tautphaus Park Zoological SocietyInc — $218,000 · AnimalsTautphaus Park Zoolog…Animal Adoption Center Inc — $200,000 · AnimalsAnimal Adoption Cente…HEART OF THE VALLEY INC — $195,000 · AnimalsHEART OF THE VALLEY I…HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $170,000 · AnimalsCENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE — $139,700 · AnimalsAll About the Animals Coalition Inc — $135,000 · Animals+16 more — $1,091,500 · Animals+16 moreCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $235,000 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA C…MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC — $215,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN HO…YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $205,000 · Human ServicesYCC FAMILY …OLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN — $182,500 · Human ServicesOLYMPIC PEN…Intermountain Therapy Animals — $155,000 · Human ServicesIntermounta…SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH VALLE…JANNUS INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesABILITY FOUND CORPORATION — $90,000 · Human ServicesYWCA MISSOULA — $78,000 · Human ServicesCHILD BRIDGE INC — $75,000 · Human Services+13 more — $332,000 · Human Services+13 moreWEST YELLOWSTONE FOUNDATION — $260,000 · Community ImprovementWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS — $40,000 · Community ImprovementHOPA MOUNTAIN INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 · Community ImprovementSalt Lake Community College Foundation — $110,000 · EducationNeeds Beyond Medicine — $70,000 · EducationWYAKIN WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc — $35,000 · EducationKids on the Move Inc — $32,500 · EducationTeton County Library Foundation & Friends — $25,000 · EducationBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $19,000 · EducationYOUTH FUTURES — $100,000 · HealthALLIANCE HOUSE INC — $80,000 · HealthUTAH HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT — $65,000 · HealthNAMI National — $55,000 · Health
Other$7,324,300Environment$4,911,500Animals$3,462,700Human Services$1,802,500Community Improvement$360,000Education$346,500Health$300,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $520,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJEFFERSON LAND TRUST — $410,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER — $393,500 over 7y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $370,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $360,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetProgressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS — $330,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC — $320,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetSagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc — $292,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER — $260,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $260,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWEST YELLOWSTONE FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $255,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $235,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $230,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetTautphaus Park Zoological SocietyInc — $218,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetMOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC — $215,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC — $210,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC — $206,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $205,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $205,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $205,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAnimal Adoption Center Inc — $200,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF IDAHO — $196,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY INC — $195,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC — $185,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetOLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN — $182,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $180,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $170,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $170,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $157,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON — $155,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS — $155,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetIntermountain Therapy Animals — $155,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetWESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC — $150,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetTHRIVE INC — $140,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $140,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC — $140,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE — $139,700 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetAll About the Animals Coalition Inc — $135,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $130,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN — $125,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC — $122,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER — $115,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation — $110,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCentennial Valley Association Inc — $110,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget
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 EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds STAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SNAKE RIVER ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka PAWS ↗
  • Who funds TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Sagebrush Steppe Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds WEST YELLOWSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
  • Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Tautphaus Park Zoological SocietyInc ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACKFOOT CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Animal Adoption Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF IDAHO ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN ↗
  • Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON ↗
  • Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
  • Who funds Intermountain Therapy Animals ↗

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.

Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Montana Community Fou…First Interstate Banc…Sorenson Legacy Found…George S and Dolores …Treacy FoundationTown Pump Charitable …The High Stakes Found…Gianforte Family Char…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Hemingway FoundationSample Foundation Inc
Dennis & Phyllis Washington FoundationMT66.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · The High Stakes Foundation · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Sample 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 Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    58report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark?

    Find your warmest path to Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 263 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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