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The Crean 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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
104
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$9.1MHuman Services$6.6MHealth$6.4MYouth Development$1.9MArts & Culture$1.2MAnimals$686kHousing & Shelter$477kReligion$421kOther$0
02FY2024 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $180k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $645k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Orangewood Foundation - Samueli Aca$500,000
Children's Bureau$250,000
ARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY$250,000
Anaheim Family YMCA$215,000
Olive Crest$205,000
Concordia University Foundation$200,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$200,000
Children's Hospital of OC Foundatio$117,500
Friends of Santa Ana Zoo$100,000
ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
Crean Lutheran High School$65,000
The Priority Center$50,000
NEW VISTA SCHOOL FOUNDATION$40,000
Big BrothersBig Sisters$35,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Guide Dogs of America: $10k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $10k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $10k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $10k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $10k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $10k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $10k → 14%Guide Dogs of America: $10k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%The Midnight Mission: $20k → 14%SHARE OUR SELVES CORPORATION: $10k → 10%SHARE OURSELVES CORPORATION: $10k → 10%SHARE OURSELVES CORPORATION: $10k → 10%The Teen Project Inc: $200k → 10%Anaheim Family YMCA: $215k → 10%Anaheim Family YMCA: $215k → 10%Anaheim Family YMCA: $215k → 10%Anaheim Family YMCA: $215k → 10%Anaheim Family YMCA: $215k → 10%Anaheim Family YMCA: $115k → 10%Anaheim Family YMCA: $115k → 10%Anaheim Family YMCA: $115k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $15k → 10%Illumination Foundation: $15k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $35k → 10%YMCA of Orange County: $25k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 10%American Red Cross: $25k → 10%American Red Cross: $25k → 10%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

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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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 117 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

117 repeat relationships — 97 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
8

Total granted

$26M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-7%

Still filing today

72%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $525k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +62%
  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +300%
  • AA
    ARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY CARLSBAD CALIFORNIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • WS
    WOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -74% · 35% of their budget
  • TT
    The Teen Project Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +102%
  • PM
    Pat McCormick Educational Foundatio
    one grant, 2017 · $37k

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
Mercy House Living Centers

Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…

Housing & Shelter
2
Irvine Adult Day Health Services Inc

Irvine adult day health services, together with families and the community, promotes a lifestyle of health, independence and active living for disabled and older adults.

Human Services
3
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
4
New Alternatives Inc

New alternatives, inc. is committed to providing abused and negelected youth with hope and opportunities through a comprehensive array of social, residential and mental health services that we provide in san diego and orange county.

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5
Waymakers

Waymakers builds safer communities by helping individuals make their way through conflict and crisis to a place of strength and stability. we redirect youthful offenders, stabilize children dealing with mental health concerns, counsel…

Crime & Legal
6
Interval House

The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…

Human Services
7
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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8
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
9
Homeless Intervention Services of Orange County

The mission of homeless intervention services of orange county is to provide support and assistance to the underprivileged and unhoused to improve their quality of life and to help them regain stability and hope.

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10
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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11
Heritage Group Homes Inc

Our mission is to serve foster youth, families and our community through intensive clinical evidence-based treatment services, along with personalized and compassionate care. we provide mental health treatment that changes lives through a…

Unclassified
12
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Heroes Hall Veterans Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersYouth Development Organizat…School & College FoundationsCharter and Alternative Sch…Children & Youth Support Se…Affordable Housing & Senior…Faith-Based Social ServicesYouth Sports LeaguesCoastal Habitat ConservationPerforming Arts Organizatio…Military Veterans SupportVulnerable Youth & Family S…Animal Rescue and WelfareFamily Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr12%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr10%34%35–55yr12%50%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/102
the rest of the field
15%
9,957/65,012

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

97 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. 97 of the 131 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/97
Grantees still filing
76/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Children's Bureau — $1,971,000 · OtherChildren's BureauLUTHERAN HIGH SOUTH - ORANGE COUNTY CREAN LUTHERAN SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL — $1,125,000 · OtherLUTHERAN HIGH SOUTH - ORANGE COUNTY C…Children's Hospital of OC Foundatio — $910,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital of OC FoundatioOrangewood Foundation - Samueli Aca — $500,000 · OtherOrangewood Foundation - Samueli AcaIndividual grant recipient — $445,000 · OtherPRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $439,300 · OtherNEW VISTA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $320,000 · Other+64 more — $3,560,669 · Other+64 moreCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $5,195,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE FOUNDATION — $1,400,000 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE FOUND…ARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY CARLSBAD CALIFORNIA — $1,010,000 · EducationARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY CARLSBAD CA…SAMUELI ACADEMY — $300,000 · Education+5 more — $406,000 · EducationHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $2,900,000 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUN…ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY — $800,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S ORANGE…OLIVE CREST — $425,000 · HealthOLIVE CREST+10 more — $545,000 · Health+10 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA — $1,420,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRI…WOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S STEP HOU…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY — $270,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRI…CHILDHELP INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesThe Teen Project Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $160,000 · Human Services+16 more — $743,000 · Human Services+16 morePHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY — $200,000 · Arts & CultureRV-MH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $160,760 · Arts & CultureARTS ORANGE COUNTY — $105,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Symphony — $80,000 · Arts & CultureSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ALL-AMERICAN BOYS CHORUS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC — $36,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $41,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SANTA ANA ZOO — $570,000 · AnimalsTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE — $175,000 · Crime & LegalORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICA ON TRACK — $40,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$9,270,969Education$8,311,000Health$4,670,000Human Services$3,993,000Arts & Culture$782,760Animals$570,000Crime & Legal$285,000

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 budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $5,195,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $2,900,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA — $1,420,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE FOUNDATION — $1,400,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY CARLSBAD CALIFORNIA — $1,010,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetWOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,000,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY — $800,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF SANTA ANA ZOO — $570,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $425,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAMUELI ACADEMY — $300,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY — $270,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTER — $208,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY — $200,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDHELP INC — $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Teen Project Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE — $175,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRV-MH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $160,760 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetFIRST STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $160,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $160,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC — $160,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetSAGE HILL SCHOOL — $152,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FACES — $150,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetWORLD FIT FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetARTS ORANGE COUNTY — $105,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetThe Prentice School — $100,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCalifornia Youth Services — $100,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAcacia Adult Day Services — $80,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFACES — $80,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $80,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Symphony — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS — $80,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCASA DE AMMA — $80,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA'S HOUSE — $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWorking Wardrobes For A New Start — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE OF THE HARBOR AREA INC — $70,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetProject Access Inc — $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARMY AND NAVY ACADEMY CARLSBAD CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SANTA ANA ZOO ↗
  • Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
  • Who funds SAMUELI ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE MASTER ↗
  • Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
  • Who funds The Teen Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PRIORITY CENTER ENDING THE GENERATIONAL CYCLE ↗
  • Who funds RV-MH HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST STEP HOUSE OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAGE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FACES ↗
  • Who funds WORLD FIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Prentice School ↗
  • Who funds California Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SENIORSERV 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.

Orange County Communi…O L Halsell FoundationSisters of St Joseph …Hoag Memorial Hospita…The Devto Support Fou…Argyros Family Founda…Edwards Lifesciences …Croul Family Foundati…Orange County's Unite…Glen and Dorothy Stil…Farmers & Merchants B…Oneoc
Orange County Community FoundationCA93.1× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · The Devto Support Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Oneoc

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 Crean 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Crean Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Crean 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 131 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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