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St Croix Foundation for Community Development

To foster economic and social development of the islands of st.

$481k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$249k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.2MArts & Culture$634kFood & Nutrition$577kYouth Development$466kEducation$407kHousing & Shelter$357kHuman Services$205kRecreation & Sports$162kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $421,820, the rows itemized in this filing. The $481,170 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,350 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $404k
$154,671
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VI GOOD FOOD COALITION$249,273
ALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE$154,671
UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS$17,876
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 12 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
64

Total granted

$2.1M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+11%

Still filing today

25%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • LR
    LONG-TERM RECOVERY GROUP
    2× · 2019–2021 · $976k
  • VG
    VI GOOD FOOD COALITION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $276k
  • KC
    KIDS COUNT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $232k

Funded once

  • VP
    VI PARTNER FOR HEALTHY HEALTHY COM
    one grant, 2020 · $184k
  • CH
    CRUCIAN HERITAGE &NATURE TOURISM
    one grant, 2022 · $170k
  • FT
    FARM TIENDA PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $129k
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.

03Its 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
The Virgin Island Childrens Museum

The Virgin Islands Children's Museum is organized and operatied exclusively for educational purposes in accordance with Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Service Code

Arts & Culture
2
St Croix Montessori School

St. croix montessori supports the joyful unfolding of each child's potential by providing a rich, meaningful learning environment based on monetssori principles.

Education
3
South Caicos Heritage Foundation
Housing & Shelter
4
St Croix Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
5
St Croix Swim Club

St. Croix Swim Club is a year-round competitive swim team offering professional coaching for the novice through highly experienced swimmer. Our goal is to promote the sport of swimming and encourage each swimmer to set goals and strive…

Recreation & Sports
6
The Concerned Citizens of St John
Environment
7
The St George Village Botanical Garden of St Croix Inc

To promote knowledge of ,respect for and responsible use of plants, especially the plants of st. croix and the eastern caribbean.

Environment
8
St Croix Youth Sailing Association Inc

Promote and organize youth sailing in the Virgin Island through instruction, competition, and travel.

Youth Development
9
Saint Croix Sailing School Inc

The school teaches mainly school-aged and some adult students the fundamentals of sailing, teamwork, sportsmanship during the summer months.

Recreation & Sports
10
Yteens Vi Inc

Purpose of Y-TEENS VI Inc The purpose of Y-TEENS VI Inc is to support and empower young people in the Virgin Islands through programs that promote education leadership development community service and personal growth The organization is…

Youth Development
11
Virgin Islands Montessori School Inc

The Virgin Islands Montessori School and Peter Gruber International Academy is committed providing an Education for Life, consistent with Montessori principles, reflecting the richess of our diverse culture and upholding international…

Education
12
Jamaica Conch Restoration Project Ltd
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Croix Environmental Association; the most unlike its peers is Leap and Learn Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 78 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LONG-TERM RECOVERY GROUP: $975,774 · OtherLONG-TERM RECOVERY GROUPVI GOOD FOOD COALITION: $276,148 · OtherVI GOOD FOOD COALITIONKIDS COUNT: $231,782 · OtherKIDS COUNTVI PARTNER FOR HEALTHY HEALTHY COM: $183,755 · OtherCRUCIAN HERITAGE &NATURE TOURISM: $169,862 · Other+62 more: $2,115,060 · Other+62 moreCMCARTS INC: $177,956 · Arts & CultureTEN SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS INC: $99,874 · Arts & CultureCALYPSO INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $8,500 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE CORP: $154,671 · Food & NutritionST CROIX MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $100,366 · EducationLEAP AND LEARN ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC: $20,000 · EducationCRUZAN COWGIRLS HORSE RESCUE: $12,150 · AnimalsOUR TOWN FREDERIKSTED INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementST CROIX ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Environment
Other$3,952,381Arts & Culture$301,330Food & Nutrition$154,671Education$140,366Animals$12,150Community Improvement$10,000Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCMCARTS INC: $177,956 over 3y, 24% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE CORP: $154,671 over 1y, 28% of budgetST CROIX MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $100,366 over 3y, 13% of budgetTEN SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS INC: $99,874 over 1y, 37% of budgetWOMEN'S COALITION OF ST CROIX: $36,750 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetST CROIX LANDMARKS SOCIETY: $25,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST CROIX ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ST CROIX INC: $8,500 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetROTARY Club of St Croix Mid Isle Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 14% 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 CMCARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR AGRICULTURE CORP ↗
  • Who funds ST CROIX MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TEN SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S COALITION OF ST CROIX ↗
  • Who funds GOOD HOPE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST CROIX LANDMARKS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LEAP AND LEARN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Edouard Foundatio…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands IncVI26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands Inc · The Edouard Foundation 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 St Croix Foundation for Community Development funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Croix Foundation for Community Development. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    How do I get to St Croix Foundation for Community Development?

    Find your warmest path to St Croix Foundation for Community Development 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 78 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 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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