· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND | $60,000 |
| BROOKLYN ORG | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $50,000 |
| LOW COUNTRY LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD | $50,000 |
| GIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| PLACES JOURNAL | $50,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMER MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| TORN SPACE THEATER | $25,000 |
| ONE COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| INTL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| COLES HOUSE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| MASS DESIGN GROUP | $25,000 |
| ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE | $10,000 |
| CATSKILL FOREST ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- DHDesign History Foundation Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +34%
- LLLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +114%
- SSSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +233%
Funded once
- EYEXALT YOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $263k · revenue +47%
- WPWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TNTHE NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIAone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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…
The Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the future of public space in New York City. Our projects bring together city agencies, community groups and private sector experts to make a lasting impact -…
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
Open plans' mission is to transform how people experience new york city's streets. open plans uses grassroots advocacy and policy change to inspire structural reforms and cultural shifts. we promote a people-first street culture that…
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Unite, advance, and strengthen nyc's diverse and global design community for the sake of marketing and fast description.
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Enough Pie. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 50 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 EXALT YOUTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Design History Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE COMMUNITY NYC INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SADIE NASH LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD ↗
- Who funds METANOIA ↗
- Who funds Torn Space Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION BUFFALO NIAGARA ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IBU Foundation ↗
- Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Enough Pie ↗
- Who funds TREES NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Hester Street Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCULPTURE CENTER 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: 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
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 Cravens 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.
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.