Massachusetts · Private foundation
Josephine and Louise Crane 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.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 120
- Grants FY2024
- 119
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $215,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 114 to 127
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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 | 114 | $4.6M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 119 | $4.6M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 127 | $5.0M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 114 | $4.6M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 114 | $4.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkshire United Way Inc | $1,465,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Boys and Girls' Club of the Berkshires Inc | $875,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Resist Inc | $669,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Smart From the Start Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 5% |
| 18 Degrees Inc | $485,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc | $480,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for Economic Democracy Inc | $470,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Cape Cod Community College | $465,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Greater Yellowstone Coalition | $440,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $345,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 155 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Gilson Family Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust
How this is measured
Compare Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation with peer funders
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About Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation
- How much does Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation give?
- Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation reported 120 grants totaling $4,695,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 114 and 127 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (14%), Health (12%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Berkshire United Way Inc ($1.5M), Boys and Girls' Club of the Berkshires Inc ($875k), Resist Inc ($669k).
- Does Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Josephine and Louise Crane 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 Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc, Berkshire United Way Inc.
- Where is Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation based?
- Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation is based in MA.
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