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The Crary 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.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$77kYouth Development$25kEducation$20kRecreation & Sports$17kHuman Services$11kAnimals$11kArts & Culture$8kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$405k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCI FOUNDATION - LANGSON IMCA$2,500
NEWPORT HARBOR SAILING FOUNDATION$2,100
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,500
ANIMAL SHELTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$1,500
BOYS REPUBLIC$1,500
USC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,500
DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE$1,500
SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,500
POMONA COLLEGE$1,500
VISITING NURSE AND HOSPICE CARE OF SB$1,000
FRIENDSHIP CENTER$1,000
KAUAI SAILING ASSOCIATION$1,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OC$1,000
SHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENS$1,000
MACKINAC ASSOCIATES$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS REPUBLIC: $4k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $4k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $3k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $3k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $3k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $2k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $2k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $2k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $2k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $2k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP CENTER: $750 → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$174k · 19 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$174k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+8%

Still filing today

58%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • BR
    Boys Republic
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +80%
  • NH
    NEWPORT HARBOR SAILING FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +299%
  • FA
    FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARKWAY FORD HERITAGE MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +8%
  • OC
    Orange County Rescue Mission Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -31%
  • CO
    Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abusegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +86%
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
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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4
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
5
Rancho Research Institute

The mission of Rancho Research Institute (RRI) is to conduct medical research and education activities at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (Rancho)See Schedule O for more details.

Unclassified
6
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
9
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
10
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
11
Cedars-Sinai Marina Hospital

The hospital's mission is to elevate the health status of the communities served.

Health
12
Sutter Coast Hospital

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sansum Clinic; the most unlike its peers is Parkway Ford Heritage Mission. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 26 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENS: $18,500 · OtherSHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENSUSC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $17,400 · OtherUSC KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINEDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $17,200 · OtherDOHENY EYE INSTITUTEVISITING NURSE AND HOSPICE CARE OF SB: $15,300 · OtherVISITING NURSE AND HOSPICE CARE OF SBSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OC: $5,200 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OCKAUAI SAILING ASSOCIATES: $5,000 · OtherJODI HOUSE INC: $3,850 · Other+9 more: $14,500 · Other+9 moreBoys Republic: $22,200 · Human ServicesBoys RepublicFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10,450 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY…SANSUM CLINIC: $7,650 · HealthSANSUM CLINI…HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,700 · HealthHOAG HOSPITA…THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $5,200 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS …Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $1,000 · HealthNEWPORT HARBOR SAILING FOUNDATION: $10,650 · Recreation & SportsAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $9,550 · AnimalsMACKINAC ASSOCIATES: $7,500 · Community ImprovementDIRECT RELIEF: $4,500 · International
Other$96,950Human Services$32,650Health$20,550Recreation & Sports$10,650Animals$9,550Community Improvement$7,500International$4,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys Republic: $22,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $17,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR SAILING FOUNDATION: $10,650 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC: $10,450 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAnimal Shelter Assistance Program: $9,550 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $7,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC ASSOCIATES: $7,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $5,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJODI HOUSE INC: $3,850 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDOG ADOPTION AND WELFARE GROUP: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKWAY FORD HERITAGE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse: $1,000 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 Boys Republic ↗
  • Who funds DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT HARBOR SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Animal Shelter Assistance Program ↗
  • Who funds SANSUM CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds JODI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOG ADOPTION AND WELFARE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PARKWAY FORD HERITAGE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds Kauai Sailing Association ↗
  • Who funds Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse ↗

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Kim and Andrew D Busch Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Crary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Crary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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