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The Crapple 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$441kHealth$143kReligion$46kEducation$43kHuman Services$42kAnimals$9kHousing & Shelter$6kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$936k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI$26,500
BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE$10,000
BRUCE MUSEUM$8,750
SAINT MARY CHURCH$5,000
GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$4,000
AT HOME IN GREENWICH$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC$1,000
MIAMI BEACH K9 KNIGHTS INC$1,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$750
AVON THEATER FILM CENTER$500
KIDS IN CRISIS$250
HISTORICAL PROPERTIES GREENWICH$250
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PENNISULAR BALL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE: $200 → 12%HISTORICAL PROPERTIES GREENWICH: $250 → 9%GREENWICH ADULT DAYCARE: $250 → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH: $1k → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH: $1k → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH: $1k → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH: $1k → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH: $500 → 9%AT HOME IN GREENWICH: $500 → 9%YWCA GREENWICH: $370 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
ID
IL
WI
NY
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CA
CO
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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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$698k · 35 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
38

Total granted

$698k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • JM
    JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +33%
  • BM
    BRUCE MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +26%
  • BC
    BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • PF
    PGA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +157%

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luke 14-12. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%52%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/52
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,513

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
39/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $284,500 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INCBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $92,200 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INCGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $37,255 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC+7 more — $17,027 · Arts & CultureYALE CANCER CENTER — $50,000 · OtherYALE CANCER CENTERFISHER ISLAND PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC — $31,500 · OtherFISHER ISLAND PHILANTHR…ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGE…ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH — $9,000 · OtherST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHU…MISERICORDIA — $8,000 · Other+39 more — $43,187 · Other+39 moreBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $78,570 · HealthBREAST CANCER…PATHWAYS INC — $4,300 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $3,000 · Health+3 more — $4,000 · HealthTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC — $12,250 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $11,000 · EducationVanderbilt University — $10,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $2,500 · Education+4 more — $1,600 · EducationAT HOME IN GREENWICH INC — $8,400 · Human ServicesTHE PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human ServicesYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC — $370 · Human Services+3 more — $700 · Human ServicesMIAMI BEACH K9 KNIGHTS INC — $9,000 · AnimalsALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $4,250 · Social Science
Arts & Culture$430,982Other$156,687Health$89,870Education$42,350Human Services$10,470Animals$9,000Social Science$4,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $284,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $92,200 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $78,570 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $37,255 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER ISLAND PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC — $31,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC — $12,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVanderbilt University — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI BEACH K9 KNIGHTS INC — $9,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetAT HOME IN GREENWICH INC — $8,400 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $4,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPGA FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS — $2,375 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF NATHANIEL WITHERELL INC — $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE IN MOTION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BALL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER AND BLOOD FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $927 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENWICH CONN INC — $786 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC — $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPEAL OF CONSCIENCE FOUNDATION — $675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER TRUST INC — $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN FINGERS GARDEN CLUB INC — $425 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC — $370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ADULT DAY CARE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUKE 14-12 — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Cornelia Cogswell Ros…The William J and Fra…Fairfield County's Co…The Goergen Foundatio…Panwy Foundation IncMalkin Fund IncRoyce Family Fund IncMalcolm S Pray Jr Fou…Bevan Daddino Foundat…The Karen Williams Fo…The Resource Foundati…Barry and Barbara Gol…
Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation IncDE24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goergen Foundation Inc · Panwy Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Royce Family Fund Inc · Malcolm S Pray Jr Foundation · Bevan Daddino Foundation Inc · The Karen Williams Fox and Gerald J Fox Foundation Inc · The Resource Foundation Inc · Barry and Barbara Goldin 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 Crapple 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Pathways Inc — 45% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Greenwich Arts Council Inc — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Crapple Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Crapple Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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