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The Charles and Mary Crossed Foundation at a glance

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The Charles and Mary Crossed Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
115
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$6.3MEducation$751kHealth$285kHuman Services$257kSocial Science$250kHousing & Shelter$110kReligion$59kArts & Culture$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k94 grants · $160k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $193k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $681k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$1,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Thomas More Society$350,000
Americans United for Life$130,000
Feminists Choosing Life of NY$115,000
Students for Life of America$113,330
Abigail Adams Institute$83,050
Individual grant recipient$80,000
Hope Hall School$55,000
Global Centurion$55,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Catholic Ministries Appeal$34,000
DFLA Educational Fund$25,000
Charlotte Lozier Institute$25,000
Our Lady of Mercy High School$22,800
Individual grant recipient$12,800
Susan B Anthony Birthplace$12,642
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%Beacon of Light Pregnancy Support Center: $2k → 14%Challenge Aspen: $500 → 6%Comfort Zone Camp In: $250 → 9%Family Hope Center: $100 → 10%Challenge Aspen: $200 → 6%MCC Foundation: $1k → 14%Water with Blessings: $8k → 15%Northern Childrens Services: $3k → 22%Water with Blessings: $6k → 15%Water with Blessings: $3k → 15%The Childrens Agenda: $1k → 14%The Childrens Agenda: $175 → 14%House of Mercy: $100k → 14%House of Mercy: $4k → 14%Children Awaiting Parents: $30k → 14%Children Awaiting Parents: $10k → 14%Children Awaiting Parents: $6k → 14%Children Awaiting Parents: $5k → 14%Beyond the Sanctuary: $10k → 14%Beyond the Sanctuary: $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

VT
NH
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NY
MA
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PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
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TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 89 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
103

Total granted

$7.6M
$506k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • AU
    Americans United for Life Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +37% · 28% of their budget
  • SF
    Students for Life of America Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $577k · revenue +18%
  • FC
    Feminists Choosing Life of NY Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $416k · revenue +21% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • SB
    S B Anthony List Educational Fund
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k
  • SO
    Station of the Cross
    2× · 2021–2022 · $70k
  • LL
    LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +47%
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
Human Life Services Inc

Human Life Services is a life affirming Christ-centered pregnancy care organization serving York through medical services, peer counseling, education and community referrals.

Civil Rights
2
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
3
Catholics for Choice

Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…

Civil Rights
4
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc

Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.

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5
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
6
Life Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc

Pregnancy resource center (prc) exists to prevent abortions and provide eternal truth through evidence based medical services and the gospel of jesus christ.

Health
7
Indiana Right to Life Incorporated

To educate the public about abortion

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8
Protect Life Michigan

Protect life michigan (plm) is organized to:promote a culture of life on college campuses in michigan. the organization's mission is to end abortion by (1) recruiting and training students for pro-life leadership, (2) educating youth on…

Civil Rights
9
A Choice for Life Inc

Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…

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10
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
11
Life Matters Worldwide

Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.

Civil Rights
12
The Center for Medical Progress

The Center For Medical Progress is dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances through investigative journalism and other educational activities that address contemporary bioethical issues impacting human dignity.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Restoration Project. 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

110 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. 110 of the 242 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/110
Grantees still filing
76/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Americans United for Life Inc: $1,508,550 · Civil RightsAmericans United for Life IncStudents for Life of America Inc: $576,830 · Civil RightsStudents for Life of America IncFeminists Choosing Life of NY Inc: $415,850 · Civil RightsFeminists Choosing Life of NY Inc+9 more: $228,901 · Civil Rights+9 moreTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $2,310,000 · Crime & LegalTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY+1 more: $500 · Crime & LegalIndividual grant recipient: $285,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGlobal Centurion: $220,000 · OtherGlobal CenturionS B Anthony List Educational Fund: $200,000 · OtherS B Anthony List Educationa…Individual grant recipient: $180,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCARING CHOICES PREGNANCY HELP COMMUNITYINC: $75,600 · OtherStation of the Cross: $70,000 · OtherTHE MARGARET HOME INC: $79,635 · Other+141 more: $869,022 · Other+141 moreThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc: $403,675 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR BIOETHICS AND CULTURE: $31,000 · EducationSt John Bosco Schools: $25,000 · Education+9 more: $37,700 · EducationThe Becket Fund: $245,000 · Social ScienceHOUSE OF MERCY INC: $104,100 · Human ServicesFAMILIES THRIVE INC: $50,500 · Human ServicesWater By Women: $17,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND THE SANCTUARY: $15,000 · Human ServicesAnd Then There Were None: $11,000 · Human Services+7 more: $12,125 · Human ServicesCenter for Client Safety Inc: $61,000 · HealthEQUICENTER INC: $45,716 · HealthNEW YORKERS FAMILY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · HealthCrisis Pregnancy Services Inc: $18,500 · HealthSidewalk Advocates for Life: $15,000 · HealthKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $10,000 · Health+7 more: $14,150 · Health
Civil Rights$2,730,131Crime & Legal$2,310,500Other$1,979,457Education$497,375Social Science$245,000Human Services$209,725Health$186,366

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $2,310,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $1,508,550 over 4y, 28% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $576,830 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFeminists Choosing Life of NY Inc: $415,850 over 4y, 50% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc: $403,675 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $245,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INC: $104,100 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Education Fund: $89,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MARGARET HOME INC: $79,635 over 4y, 11% of budgetCARING CHOICES PREGNANCY HELP COMMUNITYINC: $75,600 over 3y, 22% of budgetCenter for Client Safety Inc: $61,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetHOPE HALL: $57,550 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDFLA EDUCATION FUND: $57,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetFAMILIES THRIVE INC: $50,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetEQUICENTER INC: $45,716 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC: $45,200 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSusan B Anthony Birthplace Museum Inc: $41,112 over 4y, 30% of budgetLIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $34,201 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR BIOETHICS AND CULTURE: $31,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetSt John Bosco Schools: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLIFETIME ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetVILLA OF HOPE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORKERS FAMILY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCrisis Pregnancy Services Inc: $18,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWater By Women: $17,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSidewalk Advocates for Life: $15,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBEYOND THE SANCTUARY: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOLY FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS: $12,662 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAnd Then There Were None: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTERTON ACADEMY OF ROCHESTER: $10,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $10,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNew Wave Feminists: $9,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR BIO - ETHICAL REFORM: $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS SMILES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Michaels Family Protection Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRestoration Project: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDEATH PENALTY ACTION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS OF MERCY INC: $2,950 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNorthern Children's Services: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA PROJECT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TO LIFE INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 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 THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds Feminists Choosing Life of NY Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Abigail Adams Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE MARGARET HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING CHOICES PREGNANCY HELP COMMUNITYINC ↗
  • Who funds Center for Client Safety Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HALL ↗
  • Who funds DFLA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES THRIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Susan B Anthony Birthplace Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR BIOETHICS AND CULTURE ↗
  • Who funds St John Bosco Schools ↗
  • Who funds LIFETIME ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLA OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORKERS FAMILY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Services 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.

United Way of Greater…Rochester Area Commun…Max and Marian Farash…Esl Charitable Founda…Rochester Area Commun…Greater Rochester Hea…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Paychex Charitable Fo…Marie C and Joseph C …The Polisseni Foundat…JM McDonald Foundatio…The Bernard and Patri…
United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes IncNY39.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Marie C and Joseph C Wilson Foundation Inc · The Polisseni Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Bernard and Patricia Iacovangelo Family Foundation Inc

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 The Charles and Mary Crossed Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles and Mary Crossed Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to The Charles and Mary Crossed 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 242 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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