· Private foundation
The Crimson & Cream Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS | $6,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BRIAN BANKS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OPEN CITIES HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| POSITIVE IMAGE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HALLE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PIPositive Image5× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +79%
- NHNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +19%
- SCSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
Provide quality, accessible, and culturally sensitive healthcare services at no cost to low-income and uninsured residents of greater Rice and Steele counties.
Services provided include education, community development, youth programs, employment assistance, information dissemination, health and wellness programs, elder services, and child welfare.
We provide free, anonymous mental health counseling to anyone with an urgent need and few resources, all by clinically trained volunteer counselors, team consultants and by receptionists.
To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through shared experiences.
The mission of the organization is to provide primary medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy and related support services to the residents of the Rhode Island communities that it serves regardless of ability to pay. The emphasis is…
The mission of Preventative Care Health Services (PCHS) is to provide comprehensive primary health care, healthcare maintenance, and chronic disease management that are accessible to all people through an affordable and…
The mission of The Women's Center is to significantly improve the mental health and well-being of all members of our community through counseling, education, and support - regardless of ability to pay.
The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery (MAAHMG) preserves, records and celebrates the history, art and culture of Blacks in Minnesota through exhibitions, programs and community events.
To provide patients with the highest quality of care/services, including basic primary and preventive medical care, vision, dental, OBGYN, WIC services, and hospitalization.
Mission: Fairview is driven to heal, discover and educate for longer, healthier lives. Vision: Fairview is driving a healthier future. Values: Dignity: We value the uniqueness of each person and work to ensure everyone's right to privacy.…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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 Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Medica Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Crimson & Cream Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Crimson & Cream Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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