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The Cromarty Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Cromarty Foundation Inc

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.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$20kHealth$13kHuman Services$13kFood & Nutrition$13kAnimals$11kArts & Culture$4kYouth Development$3kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$164k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northshore Wildlife Santcuary$5,000
Tabor Academy$3,000
Loaves and Fishes$3,000
Nobody's Cats Foundation$3,000
Sweet Briar College Office of Alumn$1,500
Oakcliff Sailing Center$1,500
Life Enrichment Center at Oyster Ba$1,500
Carolina Breast Friends$1,500
Peace House$1,000
Christian Center of Utah$1,000
Proctor Academy Development Office$1,000
Island Dolphin Care$1,000
Grenville Baker Boys Girls Club$1,000
Education Through Music$750
Individual grant recipient$750
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 (FY21–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kieve-Wavus Education: $500 → 9%United Community Centers: $500 → 20%Peace House: $1k → 5%Kieve-Wavus Education: $500 → 9%United Community Centers: $500 → 20%Kieve-Wavus Education: $500 → 9%United Community Centers: $500 → 20%Center for Developmental Disabiliti: $1k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MT
MI
NY
MA
PA
UT
VA
MD
NC
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$76k · 19 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$76k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+6%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • LA
    LOAVES AND FISHES
    3× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +45%
  • TA
    TABOR ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +54%
  • CB
    Carolina Breast Friends Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • GB
    Greenville Baker Boys Girls Club
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • O
    Oakcliff
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Cold Spring School Inc

Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

Education
2
Ie New York College

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Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
5
The Town School Inc

The town school is committed to elementary coeducation, serving students in nursery through eighth grade. as we embrace high academic and ethical standards for each student, we are guided by our school motto, let there be joy in learning.…

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6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York; the most unlike its peers is Carolina Breast Friends Inc. 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

24 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. 24 of the 36 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLife Enrichment Center of Oyester B: $5,000 · OtherLife Enrichment Center of Oyester BChristian Center of Utah: $3,000 · OtherChristian Center of UtahGreenville Baker Boys Girls Club: $1,600 · OtherOakcliff Sailing Center: $1,500 · OtherLife Enrichment Center at Oyster Ba: $1,500 · OtherSweet Briar College Office of Alumn: $1,500 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,500 · OtherGRENVILLE BAKER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $1,500 · Other+12 more: $7,000 · Other+12 moreTABOR ACADEMY: $12,000 · EducationTABOR ACADEMYSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $3,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUT…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOL+1 more: $250 · EducationLOAVES AND FISHES: $12,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND FIS…Carolina Breast Friends Inc: $9,000 · HealthCarolina Breas…ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC: $3,000 · HealthISLAND DOLPHIN…NORTH SHORE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $8,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE W…THE NOBODY'S CATS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE NOBODY'S …Peace House Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesKieve Wavus Education Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: $1,000 · Human ServicesEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$30,100Education$16,750Food & Nutrition$12,000Health$12,000Animals$11,000Human Services$7,000Arts & Culture$3,750

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 budgetLOAVES AND FISHES: $12,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Breast Friends Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH SHORE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE NOBODY'S CATS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPeace House Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRENVILLE BAKER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARLYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPORTLEDGE SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewtown Creek Alliance Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR MARINE EDUCATION & RECREATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION: $250 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.

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.

The Bahnik Foundation…Pierre and Paula Gont…Frederic R Coudert Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for Good
The Bahnik Foundation IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bahnik Foundation Inc · Pierre and Paula Gonthier Family Foundation · Frederic R Coudert Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 Cromarty Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cromarty Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Cromarty Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Cromarty Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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