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The Craft Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$600kCrime & Legal$335kEducation$320kCivil Rights$245kScience & Tech$195kSocial Science$125kFood & Nutrition$105kArts & Culture$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REASON FOUNDATION$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION$50,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$50,000
STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY$25,000
LET GROW FOUNDATION$10,000
PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
YOUNG VOICES$10,000
FREE THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION$5,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION: $50k → 22%MAPS: $25k → 8%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%REASON FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FREE THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%FOODCORPS INC: $50k → 12%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%SEEDMONEY: $20k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION: $50k → 22%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%REASON FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION: $50k → 22%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%REASON FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $15k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $50k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION: $25k → 22%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%REASON FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $15k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $50k → 7%FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION: $25k → 22%REASON FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $50k → 7%BATTERY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%REASON FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 7%BATTERY FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%REASON FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $25k → 7%BURNING MAN PROJECT: $25k → 10%REASON FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ATLAS NETWORK: $50k → 14%ATLAS NETWORK: $50k → 14%THE GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ATLAS NETWORK: $25k → 14%ATLAS NETWORK: $25k → 14%STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY: $50k → 7%ATLAS NETWORK: $25k → 14%STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY: $50k → 7%STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY: $50k → 7%STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY: $25k → 7%STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY: $25k → 7%STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY: $25k → 7%STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY: $25k → 7%CATO INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%CATO INSTITUTE: $25k → 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

ME
NH
MT
IL
NY
OR
WY
PA
CA
VA
DC
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 25 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +68% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
9

Total granted

$2.4M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+68%

Still filing today

72%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsSocial SciencePublic BenefitOther
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

  • TR
    THE REASON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $610k · revenue +80%
  • SF
    STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $260k · revenue +46%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • GS
    GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +761%
  • MC
    Mercatus Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +68%
  • IF
    Institute for Humane Studies
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +13%
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
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
3
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

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…

Public Benefit
4
Competitive Enterprise Institute

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…

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5
The Future of Free Speech

Generate knowledge and spark the involvement needed to energize activists, persuade skeptics, resist authoritarians, and foster a resilient global culture of free speech

Civil Rights
6
Liberty Justice Center

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…

Crime & Legal
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science
8
Pew Research Center

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…

Social Science
9
Freedom Economy Business Association

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…

Community Improvement
10
Electronic Privacy Information Center

Epic's mission is to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age for all people through advocacy, research, and litigation.

Civil Rights
11
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights
12
The Foundation for the Constitution

The Foundations Mission is to enhance our understanding of the Constitution and our constitutional history.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Economic Education Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 34 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE REASON FOUNDATION: $610,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $260,000 · EducationSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC+1 more: $25,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $235,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVI…INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $235,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICEATLAS NETWORK: $175,000 · OtherATLAS NETWORKFREE THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherFREE THE PEOPLE FOUNDATIONYoung Voices: $50,000 · OtherYoung VoicesMAPS: $35,000 · OtherMAPSLET GROW FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherMECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY & CHESS ROOM: $25,000 · OtherGARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherBURNING MAN PROJECT: $55,000 · OtherBURNING MAN PROJECTTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE BATTERY FOUNDATIONSEEDMONEY: $25,000 · Other+13 more: $108,020 · Other+13 morePacific Legal Foundation: $195,000 · Crime & LegalFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $115,000 · Social ScienceMercatus Center Inc: $10,000 · Social SciencePROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $70,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Public BenefitFOODCORPS INC: $60,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$895,000Civil Rights$470,000Other$643,020Crime & Legal$195,000Social Science$125,000Public Benefit$120,000Food & Nutrition$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $610,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $260,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $235,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $235,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $195,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $115,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Voices: $50,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSEEDMONEY: $25,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIVILIZATION WORKS: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFULLY INFORMED JURY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetZEN HOSPICE PROJECT DBA ZEN CAREGIVING PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Young Voices ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE BATTERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDMONEY ↗
  • Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CIVILIZATION WORKS ↗
  • Who funds National Novel Writing Month ↗
  • Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
  • Who funds League of New Hampshire Craftsmen 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 ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…The Snider FoundationDonors Trust IncSilicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
The San Francisco FoundationCA16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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