New York · Private foundation
The Cravens 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.
- $595k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Cravens Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $545k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $335k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $243k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $323k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $424k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $412k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $38k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $32k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exalt Youth | $262,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Design History Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Lowcountry Land Trust Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Spring Street Climate Fund Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Ann's Warehouse Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Girls Education Collaborative Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 3% |
| One Community NYC Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project Inc | $62,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Westminster Presbyterian Church | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Democracy Forward | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cravens Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Baird Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Simple Gifts Fund · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Tides Foundation · Edwin M Johnston Jr Family Foundation · Red Top Foundation · Magnolia Plantation Foundation · The Richard W Rupp Foundation
How this is measured
About The Cravens Foundation
- How much does The Cravens Foundation give?
- The Cravens Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $595,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Cravens Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Arts & Culture (16%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are The Cravens Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Exalt Youth ($263k), Design History Foundation Inc ($110k), Lowcountry Land Trust Inc ($100k).
- Does The Cravens Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cravens Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cravens Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Baird Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Cravens Foundation based?
- The Cravens Foundation is based in NY.
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