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James and Melanie Crockard 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.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$239kPhilanthropy$172kArts & Culture$170kAnimals$61kRecreation & Sports$28kEnvironment$26kYouth Development$23kHuman Services$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$250
Median grant
12
States reached
$421k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TKE FOUNDATION INC$62,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA$35,000
TKE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
THE PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY$7,350
PITTSBURGH OPERA$5,500
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE$5,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION$5,000
WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY$5,000
BEST OF THE BATCH FOUNDATION$4,300
THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST$3,000
JOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION INC$2,500
WVU FOUNDATION INC$2,500
PRESSLEY RIDGE$1,000
SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER$1,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GUARDIAN ANGEL MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $331 → 16%CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $250 → 13%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $702 → 11%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $100 → 11%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $100 → 11%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $100 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
IL
IA
IN
OH
PA
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$550k · 61 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
12

Total granted

$550k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

64%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthEducationOther

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

  • TF
    TKE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $208k · revenue +13%
  • PB
    PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +54%
  • HA
    HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • AL
    ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +3%
  • NA
    NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
2
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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3
University of Pittsburgh

The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…

Education
4
Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.

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5
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…

Environment
6
Riverlife

Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.

Environment
7
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
8
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
9
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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10
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
11
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
12
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Support ServicesHealth Care Systems & Servi…Faith-Based Independent Sch…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsPet Rescue and AdoptionRegional Economic Developme…Pittsburgh Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr15%17%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr31%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr15%3%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr11%44%35–55yr31%44%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/56
the rest of the field
11%
3,081/27,035

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TKE FOUNDATION INC — $208,000 · OtherTKE FOUNDATION INCALLEGHENY LAND TRUST — $25,000 · OtherALLEGHENY LAND TRUSTSenior Hearts Rescue and Renewal — $16,000 · OtherSenior Hearts Rescue and RenewalMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Other+43 more — $25,894 · Other+43 moreTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $170,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST…Best of the Batch Foundation — $12,050 · PhilanthropyBest of the Batch Foundatio…+2 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC — $112,033 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH BALLET THEATR…PITTSBURGH OPERA INC — $36,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH OPERA INCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $10,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUS…+5 more — $7,100 · Arts & CultureHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE — $35,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH — $4,000 · AnimalsNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC — $2,000 · Animals+6 more — $3,200 · AnimalsPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $27,431 · Recreation & SportsJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $500 · Recreation & SportsWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $3,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION — $1,500 · Crime & LegalKIDSVOICE — $1,500 · Crime & LegalALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$289,894Philanthropy$183,050Arts & Culture$165,633Animals$44,200Recreation & Sports$35,431Education$31,000Crime & Legal$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTKE FOUNDATION INC — $208,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC — $112,033 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH OPERA INC — $36,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $27,431 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSenior Hearts Rescue and Renewal — $16,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBest of the Batch Foundation — $12,050 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESSLEY RIDGE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSVOICE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK — $1,002 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAUREL HIGHLANDS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Society of Arts and Letters Washington DC Chapter — $600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC — $346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $331 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERSAD CENTER INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eqt FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The United Way of Sou…Allegheny FoundationThe Heinz EndowmentsThe Burke FoundationThe Burke Family Foun…Eden Hall FoundationCitizens Charitable F…
Eqt FoundationPA37.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Allegheny Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation

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 James and Melanie Crockard 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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