· Private foundation
Cruse of Oil
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAZY LOVE MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| SHEPHERD SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| ROCK OF AGES JAPANESE MINISTRIES | $11,500 |
| LOVE INC OF MASON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF KENT | $10,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $5,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE MISSION | $5,000 |
| URBAN IMPACT | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BOBREAD OF LIFE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +18%
- VMVISIONS MADE VIABLE5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +33%
- UIUrban Impact6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCISE OF OLYMPIAone grant, 2024 · $100k
- RMRECONCILIATION MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue +20%
- SSSHEPHERD SOCIETY CO BETHLEHEM BIBLE COone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Religious and counselling
To build relational bridges that enable western believers to connect, encourage and empower christian leaders in the greater middle east, to share the love of jesus.
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
Missions
Christian mission and urban charitable work.
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
The primary purpose of Crossroads is to engage in Christian religious and missionary service to assist in improving and ameliorating the moral and social conditions of humanity and to provide services to Gods people which will enable them…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 34 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 Crazy Love Ministries ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VISIONS MADE VIABLE ↗
- Who funds Urban Impact ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds Refugee Womens Alliance ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT 7 ↗
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: The Norcliffe Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cruse of Oil funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cruse of Oil. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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