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CrossCurrents Foundation Inc

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.

$348k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.1MCivil Rights$534kPublic Benefit$372kEducation$247kEnvironment$208kInternational$142kHuman Services$84kCrime & Legal$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $249k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden$50,000
Telluride Council for the Arts$42,000
New Press The$25,000
Leadership Conference Civil Rts Edu$25,000
Mosaic Theater Company of DC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Washington DC Intl Film Festival$15,000
100Reporters$11,941
Transformer Inc$10,000
Brennan Center for Justice$10,000
One Fair Wage$10,000
Skylight Engagement Inc$10,000
Earth Island Institute Inc$10,000
Hispanic Affairs Project$10,000
Equal Justice Initiative$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gideon's Promise: $500 → 13%Hispanic Affairs Project: $10k → 12%Define American: $10k → 15%Red Hook Initiative: $10k → 20%Hispanic Affairs Project: $10k → 12%Define American: $10k → 15%Hispanic Affairs Project: $10k → 12%Hispanic Affairs Project: $10k → 12%Hispanic Affairs Project: $10k → 12%Hispanic Affairs Project: $10k → 12%Open Arms Housing: $10k → 14%Open Arms Housing: $10k → 14%SNCC Legacy Project: $5k → 14%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 69 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
58

Total granted

$3.5M
$534k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+10%

Still filing today

74%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TP
    THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $308k · revenue +60%
  • DF
    DENVER FILM SOCIETY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $150k · revenue +180%
  • MT
    MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • NP
    NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +79%
  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +167%
  • DE
    Documentary Education Resource
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
United States Artists Inc

To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.

Arts & Culture
2
American Documentary Inc

A national non-profit media arts organization, american documentary strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. we collaborate with passionate filmmakers to amplify their voices, nuture the…

Arts & Culture
3
The Conversationalist
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4
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

Transforming global storytelling by using data-driven research, education, and advocacy to mitigate bias, inspiring authentic portrayals in entertainment, advertising, and gaming that reflect the true diversity of the population.

Civil Rights
5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
7
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
8
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
9
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
10
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Washington Project for the Arts Inc

Washington project for the arts, inc. (wpa) supports artist-driven projects, advocacy, and dialogue so that artists can live, work, and flourish.

Arts & Culture
12
Moving Picture Institute

The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Artistic Activism Inc; the most unlike its peers is Generations Music for Justice. 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

105 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. 105 of the 141 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/105
Grantees still filing
63/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $307,940 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTIONDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER FILM SOCIETYMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DCTRANSFORMER INC: $103,000 · Arts & CultureTRANSFORMER INCTHE WASHINGTON DC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $88,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHINGTON DC INTERNATIONAL FILM …TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureTYPE MEDIA CENTER INCNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $72,800 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW PRESS INC: $69,500 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $63,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+29 more: $147,240 · Arts & Culture+29 moreHirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden: $385,000 · OtherHirshhorn Museum Sculpture GardenIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREENPEACE INC: $60,000 · OtherLeague of Conservation Voters Ed Fu: $55,000 · OtherTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $54,000 · OtherTelluride Council for the Arts: $52,000 · OtherLeadership Conference Civil Rts Edu: $50,000 · OtherDocumentary Education Resource: $50,000 · Other+57 more: $627,816 · Other+57 moreALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $145,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTIC…THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $141,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPA…Skylight Engagement Inc: $135,000 · Civil RightsSkylight Engagement…HEAD COUNT INC: $120,000 · Civil RightsHEAD COUNT INCEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $40,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITI…New Era Colorado Foundation: $30,000 · Civil RightsAll Americans Vote: $25,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $25,000 · Civil Rights+6 more: $49,500 · Civil Rights+6 moreWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $130,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $58,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationThe New School: $15,000 · EducationTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC: $12,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationJust Vision Inc: $120,000 · InternationalWOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $5,500 · InternationalPROOF MEDIA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC: $5,000 · International+2 more: $5,500 · InternationalHISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $60,000 · Human ServicesOpen Arms Housing Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesDEFINE AMERICAN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Human ServicesSNCC LEGACY PROJECT: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $5,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $400 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,366,480Other$1,418,816Civil Rights$710,500Education$245,000International$146,000Human Services$115,500Community Improvement$115,400

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 budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $307,940 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC: $145,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $145,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $141,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSkylight Engagement Inc: $135,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $130,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetJust Vision Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC: $120,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTRANSFORMER INC: $103,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON DC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $88,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC: $75,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $72,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW PRESS INC: $69,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSundance Institute: $63,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT: $60,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $58,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $54,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetProgressive Change Institute: $41,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $31,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmplifier Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGenerations Music for Justice: $30,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION: $26,350 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAll Americans Vote: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOC SOCIETY INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNTAINFILM: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOpen Arms Housing Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDEFINE AMERICAN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTALKING EYES MEDIA INC: $17,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe New School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN THE ARTS: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget100REPORTERS: $11,941 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE LABOR HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,100 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
  • Who funds DENVER FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Skylight Engagement Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Just Vision Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEAD COUNT INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORMER INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON DC INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds The National Film Preserve Ltd ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC AFFAIRS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Progressive Change Institute ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER ↗
  • Who funds New Era Colorado Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Amplifier Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Generations Music for Justice ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Foundation to Promote…The Ford FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Greater Washington Co…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Nathan Cummings F…ImpactassetsincHumanities Council of…The Andrew W Mellon F…The San Francisco Fou…
Tides FoundationCA34.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Humanities Council of Washington DC · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation

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 CrossCurrents Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from CrossCurrents Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to CrossCurrents Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to CrossCurrents Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 141 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home