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Eleanor Crook Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $7.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC | $1,614,349 |
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER | $794,558 |
| LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE | $742,542 |
| ALLIANCE TO END MALNUTRITION AND HUNGER LIMITED (UK GBP) | $686,606 |
| COALITION FOR GLOBAL PROSPERITY | $527,169 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL | $449,340 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $375,000 |
| THE GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC | $350,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $346,840 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $272,933 |
| INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $271,260 |
| UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC | $259,275 |
| MANA NUTRITION | $250,000 |
| DIMAGI | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $245,617 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 71% of grant dollars ($23M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 29% that went abroad ($9.6M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $788k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 29% of all-years giving ($9.6M)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Eleanor Crook Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CHCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +10%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF4× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +46%- BFBread for the World Institute4× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +75%
Funded once
- AUALIMA USA INCone grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue -24%
- LSLONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE & TROPICALone grant, 2020 · $347k
- HTHOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDSone grant, 2018 · $240k · revenue -89% · 50% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Global communities brings together local ingenuity and global insights to save lives and secure strong futures.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 120 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds ALIMA USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 DAYS ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance to End Hunger ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HEALING HANDS ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds RESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · New Venture Fund · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Path · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Clear Fund · Family Health International Inc · Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Eleanor Crook Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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