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Orange Crimson 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.

$6.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$11MArts & Culture$9.6MReligion$6.1MInternational$1.1MPublic Benefit$1.0MPhilanthropy$650kSocial Science$500kHealth$205kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$159M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$3,000,000
THE WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$1,500,000
NAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$500,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE ABIGAIL ADAMS INSTITUTE: $320k → 8%RELIGIOUS OF THE SACRED HEART OF MARY: $10k → 14%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 14%WILMOT CANCER INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%JDRF CNY CHAPTERS: $5k → 14%THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%THE REACH (KENNEDY CENTER): $5.0M → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500k → 14%POLISH NATIONAL YOUTH BASEBALL FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%THE LEGION OF CHRIST INCORPORATED: $3.0M → 13%NEW MOUNT CARMEL FOUNDATION: $500k → 15%THE HEIGHTS: $13k → 19%NEABPD: $200k → 7%DIVINE MERCY UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 4%THE WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1.5M → 6%BENEDICTINE SISTERS OF VIRGINIA: $100k → 7%INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 15%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 14%ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $1.0M → 14%LEGIONARIES OF CHRIST: $2.0M → 13%INSTITUTE FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES: $1.8M → 4%WOLF TRAP UNRESTRICTED AND CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $1.5M → 6%SOME: $25k → 14%NAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 13%WOLF TRAP UNRESTRICTED AND CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $1.5M → 6%UNITED STATES NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%ARTS FAIRFAX AWARDS 2018: $15k → 6%HALCYON: $25k → 14%SHARE OF MCLEAN: $250k → 6%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $500k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 3 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
24

Total granted

$12M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+129%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’23’24
EducationReligionInternationalArts & CultureSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +13%
  • TI
    The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3.8M · revenue +39%
  • WT
    WOLF TRAP UNRESTRICTED AND CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3.0M

Funded once

  • TR
    THE REACH (KENNEDY CENTER)
    one grant, 2019 · $5.0M
  • TL
    THE LEGION OF CHRIST INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $3.0M
  • LO
    LEGIONARIES OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2019 · $2.0M
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
10
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; the most unlike its peers is Navy Supply Corps Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE REACH (KENNEDY CENTER): $5,000,000 · OtherTHE REACH (KENNEDY CENTER)THE LEGION OF CHRIST INCORPORATED: $3,000,000 · OtherTHE LEGION OF CHRIST INCORPORATEDWOLF TRAP UNRESTRICTED AND CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $3,000,000 · OtherWOLF TRAP UNRESTRICTED AND CAPITAL CAMPAIGNLEGIONARIES OF CHRIST: $2,000,000 · OtherLEGIONARIES OF CHRISTARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $1,000,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON+14 more: $1,403,000 · Other+14 moreSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYThe Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc: $3,750,000 · EducationThe Institute for the Psychological Science…THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATIONNAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationNAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INCHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500,000 · Education+3 more: $425,000 · EducationWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · ReligionAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $500,000 · Social ScienceHands Together Inc: $100,000 · International
Other$15,403,000Education$11,675,000Arts & Culture$1,500,000Religion$1,000,000Social Science$500,000International$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc: $3,750,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,500,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc: $320,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetHands Together Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOMINICAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SUPPLY CORPS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds The Abigail Adams Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Orange Crimson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orange Crimson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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