Oklahoma · Private foundation
Joseph W Craft III 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.
- $7.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,320,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $146M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Joseph W Craft III Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $6.3M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $5.2M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $3.2M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $5.3M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $3.0M | 71% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $5.5M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $3.0M | 22% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Lloyd College | $8,000,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Morehead State University Foundation Inc | $6,495,000 | 8 | 19% |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $2,000,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Shaping Our Appalachian Region Inc | $1,312,500 | 1 | 38% |
| Christian Student Fellowship Inc | $1,250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $900,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tulsa Library Trust | $750,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Friends of American Song Archives Inc | $750,000 | 3 | 42% |
| The University of Tulsa | $625,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Red River Economic Development | $552,450 | 2 | 100% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph W Craft III Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Cuesta Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation
How this is measured
About Joseph W Craft III Foundation
- How much does Joseph W Craft III Foundation give?
- Joseph W Craft III Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $7,238,756 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Joseph W Craft III Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Philanthropy (14%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Joseph W Craft III Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alice Lloyd College ($8.0M), Morehead State University Foundation Inc ($6.5M), University of Louisville Foundation Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Joseph W Craft III Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph W Craft III 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 Joseph W Craft III Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc, Mervin Bovaird Foundation.
- Where is Joseph W Craft III Foundation based?
- Joseph W Craft III Foundation is based in OK.
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