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Susan Crown Exchange Inc

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.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.5MRecreation & Sports$3.7MYouth Development$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.8MSocial Science$2.3MArts & Culture$1.8MPublic Benefit$1.0MHuman Services$815kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.4M
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$1,000,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$1,000,000
COMMON SENSE MEDIA$500,000
CENTER FOR HEALING & JUSTICE THROUGH SPORTS$500,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$374,955
HOPELAB FOUNDATION INC$219,400
DENVER FILM$200,000
POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE$200,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$175,889
NRPA$175,000
AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH$150,000
USOPF$125,000
THE JOAN GANZ COONEY CENTER$100,000
LITTLE LEAGUE$100,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL$79,425
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 (FY17–24, $618k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%I FOSTER INC: $10k → 11%GATHERFOR INC: $5k → 14%WINGS FOR KIDS INC: $127k → 12%DOLLAR FOR: $5k → 9%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $10k → 23%BEAUTY 2 THE STREETZ: $10k → 14%WINGS FOR KIDS INC: $117k → 12%LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%WINGS FOR KIDS INC: $117k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS INC: $25k → 12%HOLLABACK: $5k → 20%WORKING CREDIT: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $25k → 14%GIVE US THE FLOOR: $10k → 10%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTIVISM LAW ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%BRAVER ANGELS: $10k → 17%NEW STORY INC: $10k → 10%CITY OF REFUGE - CHICAGO: $5k → 14%BETWEEN FRIENDS: $10k → 14%THE NIGHT MINSTRY: $10k → 14%YOUNG CTR FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $10k → 14%NEW MOMS: $10k → 14%HEART WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 14%MRELIEF: $10k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $10k → 14%CHICAGO REFUGEE COALITION: $5k → 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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Susan Crown Exchange Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Susan Crown Exchange Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 55 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
181

Total granted

$19M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+41%

Still filing today

82%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $775k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • PC
    POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +63%
  • CS
    COMMON SENSE MEDIA
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +80%
  • AI
    AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • UO
    US OLYMPIC COMMITTEE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • G
    GOTRI
    one grant, 2023 · $157k
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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A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
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City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
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Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
9
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
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Open Transformation Lab Inc

The missions is to provide information and resources to counter disinformation, propaganda, and offer a window to trusted content about the events that are going on in the Middle East.

Science & Tech
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is Hopelab 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.
05the grantee network

225 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 225 of the 271 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)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
220/225
Grantees still filing
142/225
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,658,772 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard Co…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $2,210,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCEOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $965,968 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION: $596,700 · EducationWASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITI…The Innovation Foundation Inc: $314,910 · Education+25 more: $1,575,217 · Education+25 moreLAUREUS: $595,000 · OtherLAUREUSTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE SPORTS & SOCIETY PROG: $582,250 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE SPORTS & SOCI…USOPF: $525,000 · OtherUSOPFYMCA OF THE USA: $462,808 · OtherYMCA OF THE USAYALE UNIVERSITY: $424,068 · OtherAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $315,000 · OtherUSA WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $274,500 · OtherWINGS FOR KIDS: $385,000 · OtherHopelab Foundation Inc: $319,400 · Other+112 more: $4,122,593 · Other+112 moreCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT: $850,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTER FOR …UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STAT…LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $527,500 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE LEAG…USA Triathlon of Colorado: $400,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA Triathl…THE WYMAN CENTER: $117,875 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW VENTURE FUND: $2,000,000 · Environment+5 more: $50,000 · EnvironmentGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $479,425 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $475,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $337,300 · Youth DevelopmentDO SOMETHING INC: $328,145 · Youth DevelopmentFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP: $210,000 · Youth Development+10 more: $170,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $1,149,988 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $635,548 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $150,000 · Social Science+2 more: $20,000 · Social ScienceCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $1,175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $360,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $200,000 · Arts & CultureAS 220: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $110,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$8,321,567Other$8,005,619Recreation & Sports$2,615,375Environment$2,050,000Youth Development$1,999,870Social Science$1,955,536Arts & Culture$1,945,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,658,772 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $2,210,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $1,175,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $1,149,988 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $965,968 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE THROUGH SPORT: $850,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $635,548 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION: $596,700 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $479,425 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $475,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetUSA Triathlon of Colorado: $400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $385,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $360,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $337,300 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetDO SOMETHING INC: $328,145 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHopelab Foundation Inc: $319,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $315,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Innovation Foundation Inc: $314,910 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetUSA WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $274,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSCREEN SANITY INC: $225,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetNew York University: $221,954 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP: $210,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BELL FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $200,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBEAM CENTER INC: $200,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION: $199,994 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $174,596 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND: $170,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WYMAN CENTER: $117,875 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $117,389 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetErikson Institute: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAS 220: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EDUCATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGAMES FOR CHANGE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $76,284 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT: $74,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $59,570 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSEARCH INSTITUTE: $56,950 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOOL'S OUT WASHINGTON: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $50,000 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.

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.

John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Robert R McCormick Fo…Field Foundation of I…Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…Circle of Service Fou…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Albert Pick Jr Fu…Reva and David Logan …
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL53.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Reva and David Logan 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 Susan Crown Exchange Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan Crown Exchange Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Verse Video Education: 35% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Susan Crown Exchange Inc?

Find your warmest path to Susan Crown Exchange Inc 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 271 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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