· Private foundation
The Crane Charitable Trust
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
- Under $10k5 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREE WHEELIN FOUNDATION INC | $52,820 |
| LA GRUA CENTER | $35,604 |
| POCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TOMAQUAG INDIAN MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $1,200 |
| ECFS | $1,029 |
| VETERANS EQUINE THERAPEUTIC SERVICE | $500 |
| STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY | $250 |
| WESTERLY LIBRARY | $250 |
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 (FY19–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TSTHE STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +5%
- PPPOCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +9%
- SESTONINGTON EDUCATION FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue ×12 · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- MHMOUNT HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERone grant, 2017 · $140k
- OCOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA MYSTIC BRANCHone grant, 2017 · $45k
- LHLIGHT HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $42k
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.
To preserve the town's natural resources.
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.
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…
Manage the operations of the stonington cemetery in stonington, ct.
To obtain lands through donation or purchase and to protect and preserve them. While preserving we are improving the sustainable of wildlife, water tables and overall quality of our natural habitat.
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.
Squannacook Greenways' goal is to build, maintain, and promote the Squannacook River Rail Trail (SRRT) as a source of recreation and safe non-motorized transportation. The Squannacook River Rail Trail is a proposed conversion of…
The society was founded to perpetuate the history of the town, to encourage the study of the history of the town and to preserve manuscript material and relics relating to that history.
The mission of the friends of the stowe free library is to foster close relations between stowe free library and the stowe community by developing human and financial resources, sponsoring activities and programs, and promoting knowledge…
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: (1) Land easements,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Stonington Free Library Inc 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.
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 FREE WHEELIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOMAQUAG INDIAN MEMORIAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds POCASSET POKANOKET LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Inclusion A Sylvestre Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL AND LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERLY ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization 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.
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Stonington Free Library Inc — 2% 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.