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Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation

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.

$257k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$257k29%
FY202420$231k15%
FY202319$226k26%
FY202221$188k24%
FY202120$167k20%
FY202020$167k25%
FY201916$157k13%
FY201817$133k41%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$360kArts & Culture$301kHuman Services$206kReligion$205kEducation$178kHealth$115kYouth Development$58kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($679k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNewvue Communities Inc: $175,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budget658 Main Street Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetFitchburg State University Foundation Inc: $112,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Star Family Services Inc: $110,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetFitchburg Art Museum: $50,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetOpportunities for Hope Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGinny's Helping Hand Inc: $31,195 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetApplewild School Incorporated: $26,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMaking Opportunity Count Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth County Land Trust Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetClinton Historical Society: $25,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetNew Players Theatre Guild Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetJust Understand My Potential Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetGroton Hill Music Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFitchburg Historical Society: $15,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetThe Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLunenburg Skate Park Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCommunity Health Connections Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrowing Places Garden Project Inc: $8,429 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSpanish American Center Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Crocker Field Restoration Committee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetRise Above Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNicholas James Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 20% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Rollstone Charitable Foundation IncMA53.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · The Nypro Foundation Inc co Nypro Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Ronald M Ansin Foundation · Workers Federal Credit Union Fka Workers' Credit Union · Clementi Family Charitable Trust

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.

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How do I get to Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Douglas & Isabelle Crocker 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.

About Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation

How much does Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation give?
Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $256,728 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (22%), Arts & Culture (18%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newvue Communities Inc ($175k), 658 Main Street Foundation Inc ($150k), Fitchburg State University Foundation Inc ($113k).
Does Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc, George R Wallace Foundation, Community Foundation of North Central Ma.
Where is Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation based?
Douglas & Isabelle Crocker Foundation is based in MA.

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 53 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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