· Private foundation
Michael & Pamela Crane Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children Incorporated | $1,800 |
| Seva Foundation | $1,800 |
| Voices for Children | $1,800 |
| Kidsave | $1,800 |
| Special Ops Warrior Fund | $1,800 |
| Anne Arundal Cty CASA | $1,800 |
| ReSurge International | $1,800 |
| Kliptown Youth Program | $1,800 |
| Calico Center | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| Love146 | $1,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your 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
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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- RIRESURGE INTERNATIONAL6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +26%
- VFVOICES FOR CHILDREN6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +14%
- CICHILDREN INCORPORATED4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SOSpecial Operations Warriorone grant, 2020 · $900
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.
California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Save the children is an international nonprofit children's relief and development organization. our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
World without orphans (wwo) global's vision is that every child would grow up in a safe and loving family, know their heavenly father, and reach their god-given purpose. wwo global's mission is to call and equip national leaders to…
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.
We empower children who are sick, disadvantaged, or living with disabilities through life-changing programs that provide medical care, mobility, education, and support to live without limits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One World Childrens Fund and the most unlike its peers is Help Me See Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 RESURGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CALICO CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP ME SEE INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL 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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Michael & Pamela Crane Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% 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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