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Edward L Croman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,623,611
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,623,611
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Edward L Croman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’23
InternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving1$1.6M100%
FY20233$30k0%
FY20201$3k100%
FY20197$105k29%
FY201813$470kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.6MReligion$578kCivil Rights$21kAnimals$10kHuman Services$180

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Edward L Croman Charitable Trust$1,623,611198%
Chabad Lubavitch of Camden County N J$160,0003n/a
Center for Jewish Learning and Living Inc$148,0003n/a
Chabad of Greater Dayton Inc$148,0003n/a
American Friends of Bet El Yeshiva$90,00021%
Chabad of Somerset County$12,0001n/a
People for Animals Inc$10,00010%
Congregation Yesode Hatorah$5,0001n/a
Chabad of Montclair Inc$2,8002n/a
Gush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman$18010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.

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.

The Edward L Croman Charitable TrustNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Edward L Croman Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Edward L Croman 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 Edward L Croman Foundation

How much does Edward L Croman Foundation give?
Edward L Croman Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,623,611 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Edward L Croman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (73%), Religion (26%), Civil Rights (1%).
Who are Edward L Croman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Edward L Croman Charitable Trust ($1.6M), Chabad Lubavitch of Camden County N J ($160k), Center for Jewish Learning and Living Inc ($148k).
Does Edward L Croman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Edward L Croman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Edward L Croman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Edward L Croman Charitable Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Edward L Croman Foundation based?
Edward L Croman Foundation is based in NJ.

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 17 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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