· Private foundation
The Benjamin & Heather Crane Foundation Inc
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k15 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Love146 Inc | $120,000 |
| HOPE Farm Inc | $120,000 |
| Mully Childrens Family USA | $3,000 |
| Discovery Land Company Foundation | $2,500 |
| Young Life | $2,500 |
| The Next Door | $1,250 |
| Bridgeport Ministries | $1,200 |
| Justice and Mercy International | $1,026 |
| Vanderbilt University | $1,000 |
| Leaders Collective | $700 |
| Daystar Counseling Ministries Inc | $515 |
| International Sports Agency Childre | $500 |
| Wonderfully Made Ministry for Girls | $500 |
| Modern Day Missions | $400 |
| Chris Long Foundation | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $447k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- HFHOPE FARM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $442k · revenue +158%
- LILOVE146 INC3× · 2017–2019 · $442k · revenue +110%
- TDTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $31k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- DSDENVER SEMINARYone grant, 2018 · $9k
- MMMARRIAGE MATTERS NOWone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +19%
- LLLA LIMYE' MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +65%
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Mercy multiplied international, inc. is a christian-based entity that exists as the central coordinating body for the mercy multiplied program and brand. formerly known as mercy ministries international, inc., the ministry officially…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Doug Holliday Ministries exists to ignite the Body of Christ with Great Commandment-Great Commission priorities by inspiring, instructing, and involving the next generation of missional leaders worldwide. Programs include: Inspiring:…
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
The mission of young leaders international, inc. is to empower young leaders to reach their world for christ.
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
West african mercy ministries is a non-profit, faith-based organization that works in ghana, west africa. our mission is to glorify god and love jesus through mercy ministry. we see this happening as we contagiously champion compassionate…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Able Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 27 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 HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE MATTERS NOW ↗
- Who funds MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC ↗
- Who funds LA LIMYE' MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Able Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds LEADERS COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THROUGH THE WORD INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERFULLY MADE MINISTRY FOR GIRLS CO DEEANN HODGE ↗
- Who funds MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds FRONT PORCH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CHRIS LONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Benjamin & Heather Crane Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — 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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