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Powell Crown 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.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$675kReligion$458kRecreation & Sports$280kArts & Culture$122kYouth Development$67kHealth$40k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $176k
$17,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBERT BAKER FUND$33,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
THE LEAVES$25,000
LONGYEAR MUSEUM$25,000
CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS$20,000
MOTHER CHURCH$17,500
CHERISHABLILITY$15,000
FRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ADVENTURE UNLIMITED$5,000
CEDARS CAMPS$5,000
THE CAMPERSHIP FUND$1,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHERISHABLILITY: $15k → 12%CHERISHABLILITY: $10k → 12%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

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
MO
KS
HI
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 18 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$1.5M
$104k

Still filing today

56%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LONGYEAR FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +126%
  • PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $109k · revenue +36%
  • CL
    CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • TC
    THE CAMPERSHIP FUND FOR CHRISTIAN S
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • AW
    ARDEN WOOD NURSING CARE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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.

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Board of Camp and Retreat Ministries Or/Id Conference United Methodist Church

See schedule o. we serve individuals, families, educational institutions, religiously affiliated groups, social service agencies, community service organizations, and other nonprofit organizations that enrich life in the world. we are a…

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2
Visiting Christian Science Nursing Service for Los Angeles County Inc

Nursing care for christian scientists.

Health
3
Timberline Baptist Camp & Conference Center Inc

Christian retreat center

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4
Lake Ann Baptist Camp Inc

Christian youth and family camp

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5
Christian Science Nursing Care Endowment

Providing financial support to non-profit care facilities for nursing/care.

Human Services
6
Camp & Assembly Commission of the Methodist Churches of North Alabama

Sumatanga Camp & Conference Center is a 1,400-acre retreat nestled against Chandler Mountain in St. Clair County, Alabama. We offer a sacred space and an environment rich with opportunities for encounters with God through nature and…

Youth Development
7
Colorado Christian Service Camp

Through this unique mountain environment to encourage and challenge campers to become fully devoted followers of christ by making decisions to follow christ rededicating their lives to christ and being called into full time ministry.

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8
Camp Berea of Maine

The organization is a christian camp and conference center focusing on spiritual enrichment and renewal through bible teaching and studies.

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9
Fern Lodge Inc

Fern Lodge provides Christian Science nursing services and housing for staff.

Housing & Shelter
10
Cedar Lake Ministries

Cedar lake ministries exist to provide a life changing environment for evangelism and spiritual growth.

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11
Camp Selah

Christian camp for youth, families, and organizations.

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12
High Oaks Inc

Charitable - assist christian scientists in receiving authorized christian science health care services

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adventure Unlimited; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Camp Bow-Isle. 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

10 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. 10 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FIRST CHURCH CHRIST SCIENTISTS: $524,745 · OtherTHE FIRST CHURCH CHRIST SCIENTISTSTHE PRINCIPIA: $179,000 · OtherTHE PRINCIPIACHRISTIAN SCIENCE CAMPERSHIP FUNDS: $131,164 · OtherCHRISTIAN SCIENCE CAMPERSHIP FUNDSTHE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION: $97,000 · OtherTHE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATIONTHE ALBERT BAKER FUND: $68,000 · OtherTHE ALBERT BAKER FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · Other+14 more: $212,523 · Other+14 morePEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $108,500 · ReligionPEACE HAV…The Leaves Inc: $30,000 · ReligionThe Leave…LONGYEAR FOUNDATION: $121,707 · Arts & CultureCRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC: $48,000 · Recreation & SportsADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $20,500 · Recreation & SportsCamp Newfound Owatonna Corporation: $10,500 · Recreation & SportsCHERISHABILITY: $25,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE: $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,262,432Religion$138,500Arts & Culture$121,707Recreation & Sports$79,000Human Services$25,000Youth Development$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLONGYEAR FOUNDATION: $121,707 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $108,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ALBERT BAKER FUND: $68,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC: $48,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetThe Cedars Camps Inc: $35,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Leaves Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHERISHABILITY: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE: $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCamp Newfound Owatonna Corporation: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% 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 LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALBERT BAKER FUND ↗
  • Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Leaves Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHERISHABILITY ↗
  • Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE ↗
  • Who funds Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation ↗

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.

The Isabel FoundationMI26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Isabel Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Towle Family Foundation · Asher Student Foundation · The Campership Fund · The Daycroft School Foundation Inc · The Tiny Tiger Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · James W Garvey Family Charitable Trust · Spaulding Family Foundation · Annie 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 Powell Crown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Powell Crown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Powell Crown Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Powell Crown Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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