· Private foundation
The Craft Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REASON FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| FREE THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUNG VOICES | $10,000 |
| PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER | $10,000 |
| LET GROW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of your 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 +71% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TRTHE REASON FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +80%
- SFSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $235k · revenue +46%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $185k · revenue +217%
Funded once
- GSGARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +761%
- IFInstitute for Humane Studiesone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +13%
- MCMercatus Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +68%
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
Generate knowledge and spark the involvement needed to energize activists, persuade skeptics, resist authoritarians, and foster a resilient global culture of free speech
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Epic's mission is to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age for all people through advocacy, research, and litigation.
The mission of Freedom Economy is to equip justice and sustainability investors with legal and policy education, tools, and a peer network needed to stand boldly in their values, defend their rights and advance a fair, inclusive and…
The Foundations Mission is to enhance our understanding of the Constitution and our constitutional history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Economic Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Property and Environment Research Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds BURNING MAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Young Voices ↗
- Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SEEDMONEY ↗
- Who funds GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds National Novel Writing Month ↗
- Who funds CIVILIZATION WORKS ↗
- Who funds League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Inc ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Yerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival ↗
- Who funds FULLY INFORMED JURY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ZEN HOSPICE PROJECT DBA ZEN CAREGIVING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Mercury Soul 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Craft Foundation 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.
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% 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.