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Croul Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
72
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$1.6MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MHuman Services$1.0MYouth Development$803kFood & Nutrition$720kEmployment$580kHousing & Shelter$560kOther$0
02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $541k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $554k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION$250,000
OC MUSEUM OF ART$131,000
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE$62,932
SURFING ERITAGE FOUNDATION$60,000
NEWPORT BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION$50,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COOUNTY$50,000
BRACKEN'S KITCHEN$50,000
OCEAN INSTITUTE$50,000
CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY$50,000
PLANES OF FAME AIR MUSEUM$50,000
PROJECT HOPE ALLIANCE$40,000
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$34,189
KID WORKS COMMUNITY DEVEOPMENT CORPORATION$30,000
NEWPORT BALBOA SAILING & SEAMANSHIP ASSOCIATION$30,000
PACIFIC CLUB IMPACT FOUNDATION$30,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $742k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE COLLEAGUES INC: $1k → 14%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED INC: $50k → 10%GOLD COUNTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%THE COLLEAGUES: $1k → 14%LASSEN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 17%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED INC: $25k → 10%GOLD COUNTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%THE COLLEAGUES: $1k → 14%SERVING PEOPLE IN NEED INC: $25k → 10%THE COLLEAGUES: $1k → 14%CHILD GUIDENCE CENTER: $15k → 10%BALD MOUNTAIN RESCUE FUND: $5k → 7%CHILD GUIDENCE CENTER: $15k → 10%GOLD COUNTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $1k → 7%GOLD COUNTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%GOLD COUNTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $1k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $20k → 14%SHARE OUR SELVES: $50k → 10%THE SHARE OUR SELVES FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%LAURA'S HOUSE: $5k → 10%HUMAN OPTIONS INC: $10k → 10%KIDS WORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $40k → 10%KID WORKS COMMUNITY DEVEOPMENT CORPORATION: $30k → 10%KIDS WORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 10%KIDS WORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 10%HART COMMUNITY HOME INC: $25k → 10%HART COMMUNITY HOME INC: $25k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $50k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $20k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $20k → 10%PARENTIS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%PARENTIS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%PARENTIS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%PARENTIS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%PARENTIS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%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

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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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.9M · 114 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

114 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
103

Total granted

$8.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+20%

Still filing today

68%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +45%
  • OI
    OCEAN INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +24%
  • BK
    Brackens Kitchen Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • PA
    PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +116%
  • MR
    MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
3
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
4
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
5
Augustana College

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…

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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7
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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8
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
9
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
12
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement; the most unlike its peers is Wilson Girls Aquatics 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

150 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. 150 of the 248 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
145/150
Grantees still filing
105/150
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 · OtherORANGE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $260,000 · OtherBrackens Kitchen Inc: $250,000 · OtherOCEAN INSTITUTE: $250,000 · Other+119 more: $3,773,874 · Other+119 moreNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationNEWPORT BEACH …Project Hope Alliance: $190,000 · EducationProject Hope A…SAMUELI ACADEMY: $180,000 · EducationSAMUELI ACADEM…HIGH SCHOOL INC ACADEMIES FOUNDATION: $165,000 · EducationHIGH SCHOOL IN…VISTA CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 · EducationVISTA CHARTER …THINK TOGETHER: $145,000 · EducationTHINK TOGETHERAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EducationAMERICAN CAREE…CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $71,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVER…+19 more: $80,689 · Education+19 moreORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $582,000 · Arts & CultureORANGE COUNTY…PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTO…ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureORANGE COUNTY…Planes of Fame Air Museum: $80,000 · Arts & CulturePlanes of Fam…SURFING HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $82,250 · Arts & Culture+6 morePARENTIS FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Human ServicesKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $110,000 · Human ServicesServing People In Need Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesCATERINAS CLUB: $90,000 · Human ServicesGold Country Community Services: $85,000 · Human ServicesCASA TERESA INC: $71,000 · Human ServicesShare Our Selves Corporation: $50,000 · Human ServicesHART COMMUNITY HOMES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human Services+11 more: $89,700 · Human ServicesGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $290,000 · EmploymentWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $115,000 · EmploymentWorking Wardrobes For A New Start: $80,000 · EmploymentCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $245,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $115,000 · Recreation & SportsENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURFING INC: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsCHOC FOUNDATION: $170,000 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $80,000 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $69,000 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $61,500 · HealthHurtt Family Health Clinic Inc: $30,000 · Health+4 more: $22,000 · Health
Other$5,783,874Education$1,316,689Arts & Culture$1,214,250Human Services$815,700Employment$485,000Recreation & Sports$461,000Health$432,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $582,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $290,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN INSTITUTE: $250,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBrackens Kitchen Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $245,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $190,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUELI ACADEMY: $180,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH SCHOOL INC ACADEMIES FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: $165,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVISTA CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHINK TOGETHER: $145,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARENTIS FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE: $130,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGET INSPIRED: $125,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $115,432 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICA ON TRACK: $112,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $110,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $101,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetServing People In Need Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCHILD CREATIVITY LAB: $95,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCATERINAS CLUB: $90,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY: $90,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetInterfaith Food Ministry Nevada County: $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFood Bank of Nevada County: $85,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetGold Country Community Services: $85,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetWorking Wardrobes For A New Start: $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPlanes of Fame Air Museum: $80,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $75,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURFING INC: $75,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetSTRENGTH IN SUPPORT: $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCASA TERESA INC: $71,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $71,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $69,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF THE HARBOR AREA INC: $65,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $61,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetProject Access Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEWPORTBALBOA SAILING AND SEAMANSHIP ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $60,000 over 1y, 4.6% 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 ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMUELI ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HIGH SCHOOL INC ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds VISTA CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY MUSIC AND DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds PARENTIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE ↗
  • Who funds GET INSPIRED ↗
  • Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
  • Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA ON TRACK ↗
  • Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds Serving People In Need Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CREATIVITY LAB ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ANAHEIM ↗
  • Who funds CATERINAS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County ↗

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA87.3× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Samueli Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Oneoc · Orange County's United Way · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare 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 Croul Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Croul Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
41report 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
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.

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 248 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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