How much did THE CRANE CHARITABLE TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE CRANE CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

written

2019

written

2020

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2021

trail accessscholarshiphandicappedstonington

2022

librarystonington

2023

start-up

2024

scholarshiplibrarystart-up

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $3k
$10k–50k3 grants · $56k
$50k–250k1 grant · $53k

$1,200

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

FREE WHEELIN FOUNDATION INC$52,820
LA GRUA CENTER$35,604
JOSH PIVER SCHOLARSHIP$10,000
POCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC$10,000
TOMAQUAG INDIAN MEMORIAL MUSEUM$1,200
ECFS$1,029
VETERANS EQUINE THERAPEUTIC SERVICE$500
STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY$250
WESTERLY LIBRARY$250

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$862k · 12 repeat orgs$288k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$862k

$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-31%

-29%

Still filing today

42%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

FW
FREE WHEELIN FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $265k · revenue -64% · 96% of their budget
LG
LA GRUA CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $247k
TI
TOMAQUAG INDIAN MEMORIAL MUSEUM
7× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue -33%

Funded once

MH
MOUNT HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $140k
OC
OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA MYSTIC BRANCH
one grant, 2017 · $45k
LH
LIGHT HOUSE
one grant, 2020 · $42k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Deer Isle Stonington Historical

The deer isle-stonington historical society was formed in 1959 with the goal of collecting and preserving historical facts, records and relics pertaining to deer isle, stonington and adjoining communities and islands of east penobscot bay…

Arts & Culture

Stonington Land Trust Inc

To preserve the town's natural resources.

Environment

Friends of Rockland Public Library

The mission of the friends of the rockland public library is to support the goals of the library and its advisory board in their efforts to serve the city and the greater rockland community.

Education

Wheeler School & Library of North

Wheeler Library serves as the principal public library for the residents of North Stonington. It's mission is to bring people, information and ideas together.

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North Stonington Historical

To maintain the homestead and artifacts gifted to the nshs. to preserve historical documents and artifacts of the town of north stonington. to create awareness of the history of north stonington.

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Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and working landscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation, stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for community…

Environment

Amagansett Free Library

Providing quality materials and services, which fulfill the educational, information, cultural and recreational needs of the entire community in an atmosphere that is welcoming and respectful.

Education

Norfolk Land Trust Inc

To encourage the preservation of open space in norfolk, ct and surrounding communities for the public benefit and to serve as a vehicle for managing and maintaining land that has been set aside for open space purposes.

Environment

Watertown Land Trust

Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.

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Stonington Cemetery Association

Manage the operations of the stonington cemetery in stonington, ct.

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West Tisbury Library Foundation Inc

To promote and advocate for the maintenance, improvement, renovation, expansion and support of the west tisbury free public library, including the library buildings and grounds, and support of collections, programs and services.

Education

Princeton Land Trust

Princeton land trust's mission is to preserve the natural beauty and character of the town of princeton through conservation of land and water resources.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum and the most unlike its peers is Free Wheelin 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

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/8

Grantees still filing

2/8

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$668,624Human Services$265,208Arts & Culture$96,553Education$74,300Environment$45,331

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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation THE CRANE CHARITABLE TRUST 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FREE WHEELIN FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 880543758 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FREE WHEELIN FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Crane Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Crane Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE CRANE CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Crane Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph

THE CRANE CHARITABLE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Crane Charitable Trust?

More from the funding graph