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Crossroads Mill Foundation at a glance

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Crossroads Mill Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$80k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$210kRecreation & Sports$51kCrime & Legal$26kInternational$26kAnimals$10kArts & Culture$2kHealth$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$929k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEABODY SCHOOL$65,000
BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST$5,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL$5,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$2,500
RE FOUNDATION$1,250
BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS$1,000
UVA FUND$250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $3k → 10%BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $1k → 10%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $5k → 15%COLORADO ACADEMY: $1k → 7%PEABODY SCHOOL: $65k → 8%MISS VIRGINIA PAGEANT INC: $100 → 8%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $1k → 9%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%COWPASTURE RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC: $250 → 13%ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $5k → 22%BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST: $5k → 15%PEABODY SCHOOL: $60k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $3k → 11%COWPASTURE RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $250 → 13%PEABODY SCHOOL: $50k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $1k → 11%PEABODY SCHOOL: $10k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $500 → 11%INTERNATIONAL NEIGHBORS: $5k → 8%WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $500 → 11%CHRIST CHURCH: $4k → 8%MUSIC RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 8%CHRIST CHURCH: $2k → 8%FOUNTAIN FUND: $1k → 8%FRONT PORCH: $1k → 8%BRIDGE PAI: $1k → 8%CACFSHERRI KING OCONNOR MEMORIAL FUND: $500 → 8%THE HAVEN: $500 → 8%NORTH GARDEN FIRE COMPANY INC: $500 → 8%VIRGINIA ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $51k → 8%FOUNTAIN FUND: $25k → 8%INTERNATIONAL NEIGHBORS INC: $21k → 8%ROGERS ENDEAVORS FOUNDATIONS: $5k → 8%VAF: $34k → 8%STEM FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%UVA FUND: $250 → 8%RE FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$260k · 7 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +200% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$260k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+200%
+4%

Still filing today

86%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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

  • PS
    PEABODY SCHOOL
    4× · 2018–2022 · $185k · revenue +81%
  • IN
    International Neighbors Inc
    2× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +200%
  • TF
    THE FOUNTAIN FUND
    2× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +461%

Funded once

  • VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +10%
  • V
    VAF
    one grant, 2018 · $34k
  • RE
    ROGERS ENDEAVORS FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
4
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
5
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Concord Academy

Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…

Education
8
Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia

To advance the science that will predict, prevent, reverse, and cure diseases of the immune system such as autoimmune disease, allergy, and asthma.

Health
9
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation

Vipc grows and diversifies virginia's economy by investing in and accelerating innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Science & Tech
10
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
11
Calvert County Day School Inc T/a the Calverton School

Fostering a culture of respect, high expectations, and shared experiences, the calverton school instills in students intellectual curiosity, personal responsibility, and a strong work ethic to prepare them for higher education and…

Education
12
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peabody School; the most unlike its peers is The Haven 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEABODY SCHOOL: $185,000 · EducationPEABODY SCHOOLVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 · EducationVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $13,000 · EducationVAF: $33,500 · OtherVAFCHRIST CHURCH: $5,325 · OtherCHRIST CHURCHROGERS ENDEAVORS FOUNDATIONS: $5,000 · OtherROGERS ENDEAVORS…ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $2,500 · Other+9 more: $7,100 · Other+9 moreInternational Neighbors Inc: $26,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNTAIN FUND: $26,000 · Crime & LegalBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $10,000 · AnimalsBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $1,000 · HealthCOWPASTURE RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500 · EnvironmentTHE HAVEN INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Education$249,000Other$53,425Philanthropy$26,000Crime & Legal$26,000Animals$10,000Health$2,000Environment$500Housing & Shelter$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEABODY SCHOOL: $185,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc: $26,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE FOUNTAIN FUND: $26,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE PAI: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOWPASTURE RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HAVEN INC: $500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetNORTH GARDEN FIRE COMPANY INC: $500 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.

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.

Charlottesville Area …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Crossroads Mill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crossroads Mill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    1get no government money at all
    5report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Crossroads Mill Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Crossroads Mill Foundation 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 25 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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