· Private foundation
The Crane Family 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
- Under $10k18 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $15,000 |
| NAZARETH COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| FOODLINK | $5,000 |
| LOLLYPOP FARM | $2,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF WAYNE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| PIRATE TOY FUND | $2,300 |
| FAIRPORT FOOTBALL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| 13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT | $1,000 |
| JAMES SPENCER JR FOUNDATION | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| MAZ FOUNDATION | $250 |
| WALKING FOR ROCHESTER INC | $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 (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER4× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +81%- PTPIRATE TOY FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +69%
- CCCURE CHILDHOOD CANCER ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2022 · $59k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +29%
- JAJunior Achievement of Western New Yorkone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +11%
- FCFLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +203%
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.
Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…
It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.
Establish a unified voice for children and youth with emotional, behavioral, and social challenges. the organizational mission is to ensure that every family has access to needed information, support, and services.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…
Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wayne County Historical Society. 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 39 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 81 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 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds PIRATE TOY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Western New York ↗
- Who funds FLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Fairport Football Alumni Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SMEENK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SODUS TOWN AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds 13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GENESEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Palmyra Community Center ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND 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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Summers Foundation Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Davenport-Hatch Foundation · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Esl Charitable 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 Family 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc — 9% 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.