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· Private foundation
MCCRANE FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$400k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
2
Communities
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of MCCRANE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
theatre
2019
theatre
2020
theatre
2021
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2022
—
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
- NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$250,000
- UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$75,000
- COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC$25,000
- NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$25,000
- MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA$20,000
- MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE$5,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 71% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 13 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
3
Total granted
$2.1M
$85k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+26%
+298%
Still filing today
69%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHealthOther
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
- NJNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA4× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +16%
- CBCOUNT BASIE THEATRE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $270k · revenue +62%
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CTR7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- NSNJ SHORE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MCMONMOUTH COUNTY SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $20k
- EAEVERGLADES ANGELS DOG RESCUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +298%
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
The Greater Southern Jersey
To maintain a symphony orchestra in which talented volunteer musicians are given the opportunity to improve, learn, and perform quality classical music.
Arts & Culture
2
Sussex County Farm and Horse Show
The association's exempt purposes are to conduct the sussex county farm and horse show (also known as the new jersey state fair), bring attention to sussex county, new jersey through community participation, encourage leadership,…
Recreation & Sports
3
Humane Society of Somerset County
Operation of animal shelter
Animals
4
South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter Inc
Provides refuge for homeless and unwanted animals, adoption services for homeless animals, and spay/neuter services.
Animals
5
Bow Street Theatre Trust
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6
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc
Create opportunities for people in the greater princeton area to experience excellent, innovative live music in many forms and venues, encouraging them to engage in the art form.
Arts & Culture
7
The Chatham Orpheum Theater Inc
Our mission is to return cinema to our community by re-creating the chatham theater, formerly known as the orpheum theater. the orpheum was restored to the iconic and historic main street structure which housed the local movie theater from…
Arts & Culture
8
Society of Animal Artists Inc
Promote and display animal art, teach and encourage artists who depict animals in their work.
Arts & Culture
9
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
Arts & Culture
10
The Shakespeare Theatre
Shakespeare theatre company creates world-class (see schedule o for continuation)
Arts & Culture
11
New Jersey Repertory Company
To enhance the availability of theater to the general public
Arts & Culture
12
Nassau County Spca Inc
To protect nassau county's animals from cruel & inhumane treatment (see schedule o)nassau county spca inc.'s mission is to protect nassau county's animals from cruel & inhumane treatment and put an end to animal suffering through…
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Count Basie Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$972,500Arts & Culture$905,000Animals$135,000Health$100,000Education$60,000
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 NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COUNT BASIE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CTR ↗
- Who funds COPD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds COLLIER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MYLESTONE EQUINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LORD STIRLING STABLE ↗
- Who funds EVERGLADES ANGELS DOG RESCUE INC ↗
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.
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation MCCRANE FOUNDATION INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF LORD STIRLING STABLE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 222512100 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF LORD STIRLING STABLE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to McCrane Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to McCrane Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines