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The Crane Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$194kHealth$176kHuman Services$76kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kYouth Development$20kRecreation & Sports$19kFood & Nutrition$16kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$130k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$15,000
NAZARETH COLLEGE FOUNDATION$12,000
FOODLINK$5,000
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,500
LOLLYPOP FARM$2,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WAYNE COUNTY$2,500
PIRATE TOY FUND$2,300
FAIRPORT FOOTBALL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,000
13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$250
JAMES SPENCER JR FOUNDATION$250
MAZ FOUNDATION$250
WALKING FOR ROCHESTER INC$250
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAFE HARBORS OF THE FINGER LAKES: $100 → 10%EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $500 → 10%EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $500 → 10%EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $500 → 10%EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $500 → 10%EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $500 → 10%PALMYRA COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%PALMYRA COMMUNITY CENTER: $550 → 11%EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $100 → 10%PALMYRA COMMUNITY CENTER: $115 → 11%EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $100 → 10%EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $100 → 10%CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 14%ZOEY'S LIGHT: $250 → 14%ZOEY'S LIGHT INC: $250 → 14%ZOEY'S LIGHT: $150 → 14%ZOEY'S LIGHT: $150 → 14%ZOEY'S LIGHT: $150 → 14%PIRATE TOY FUND: $40k → 14%PIRATE TOY FUND: $12k → 14%PIRATE TOY FUND: $10k → 14%PIRATE TOY FUND: $2k → 14%PIRATE TOY FUND: $2k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $1k → 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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$431k · 25 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
47

Total granted

$431k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+29%

Still filing today

52%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +81%
  • PT
    PIRATE TOY FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +98%
  • CC
    CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $59k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +29%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Western New York
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +11%
  • FC
    FLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +203%
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
Compeer Rochester Inc

Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.

Health
2
Rochester General Health System

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.

Health
3
Rochester General College of Health Careers

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.

Education
4
The Rochester General Hospital

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…

Health
5
Carefirst Ny Inc

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.

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6
Families Together in New York State Inc

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.

Human Services
7
St Joseph's Medical Pc

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.

Health
8
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

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…

Health
9
Central New York Quest Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Syracuse University

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…

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Children's Center of New Paltz Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAZARETH COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $48,000 · OtherNAZARETH COLLEGE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $24,273 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $15,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $13,058 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENT…GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $6,500 · OtherFLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $10,000 · OtherFLOWER CITY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC+47 more: $58,845 · Other+47 moreUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $36,000 · EducationNAZARETH UNIVERSITYST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY+3 more: $3,440 · EducationCURE CHILDHOOD CANCER ASSOCIATION: $58,503 · HealthCURE CHILDHOOD CANCER ASS…ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH: $56,300 · HealthROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTHAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,501 · HealthAmerican Heart Associatio…+5 more: $6,100 · HealthPIRATE TOY FUND INC: $66,999 · Human ServicesPIRATE TOY FUN…EMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $2,800 · Human Services+5 more: $4,820 · Human Services+5 moreFOODLINK INC: $16,446 · Food & NutritionJunior Achievement of Western New York: $15,000 · International+2 more: $600 · InternationalFairport Football Alumni Association Inc: $7,220 · PhilanthropySMEENK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$185,676Education$139,440Health$130,404Human Services$74,619Food & Nutrition$16,446International$15,600Philanthropy$12,220

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPIRATE TOY FUND INC: $66,999 over 5y, 13% of budgetCURE CHILDHOOD CANCER ASSOCIATION: $58,503 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH: $56,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $16,446 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Western New York: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFairport Football Alumni Association Inc: $7,220 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetSMEENK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget13THIRTY CANCER CONNECT INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEMBRACE YOUR SISTERS: $2,800 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA OF GENESEE COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPalmyra Community Center: $1,770 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE TO SURVIVE ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOEYS LIGHT INC: $950 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCDS WOLF FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI ROCHESTER NY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTOPHER'S CHALLENGE INC: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BILL COOK FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESOLVE OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKING FOR ROCHESTER INC: $250 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Onseyawa Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK9 ORPHANS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUGS FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HARBORS OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 WAYNE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ↗
  • Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF GENESEE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Palmyra Community Center ↗

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.

Rochester Area Commun…United Way of Greater…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Greater Rochester Hea…Max and Marian Farash…Summers Foundation IncPaychex Charitable Fo…Davenport-Hatch Found…Waldron Rise Foundati…The Florence M Muller…Rochester Area Commun…Esl Charitable Founda…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY37.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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