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The Crowdstrike Foundation at a glance

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The Crowdstrike 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.

$301k
Granted FY2020
33
Grants FY2020
15
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Crowdstrike Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Charities Aid Foundation America, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Crowdstrike Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $301k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
21
’20
8
’21
3
’22
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Education$438kHuman Services$227kInternational$98kCivil Rights$50kFood & Nutrition$45kCrime & Legal$30kHousing & Shelter$30kHealth$26kOther$0
02FY2020 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k23 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Black Girls Code$50,000
National Association for the Advancement of Colore$25,000
Northside Achievement Zone$25,000
The Smallpiece Trust$17,953
American National Red Cross$10,000
Families Forward$10,000
Casa Marianella$10,000
American National Red Cross$10,000
Sunnyvale Community Service$10,000
Feed the Front Line$10,000
Capital Area Food$7,500
Rochester Institute of Technology$7,500
Purdue University$7,500
Brown University$7,500
Second Harvest Food Bank of OC Irvine$7,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sunnyvale Community Service: $10k → 8%Community Partners of Dallas: $5k → 14%Operation Motorsport Program Foundation Inc: $200k → 8%Operation Motorsport Program Foundation Inc: $2k → 8%Girls Who Code: $10k → 17%American National Red Cross: $10k → 14%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS INC: $5k → 17%American National Red Cross: $10k → 14%American National Red Cross: $5k → 14%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

VT
WA
MN
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of The Crowdstrike Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Crowdstrike Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$285k · 4 repeat orgs$498k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$285k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+41%

Still filing today

75%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • OM
    Operation Motorsport Program Foundation
    2× · 2020–2022 · $202k · revenue +310%
  • BG
    BLACK GIRLS CODE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $56k · revenue -82%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $23k

Funded once

  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +41%
  • VP
    VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
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
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Manhattanville University

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

Education
9
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feed the Front Line. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 52 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Potsdam College Foundation Inc: $138,267 · OtherPotsdam College Foundation IncICMPC: $25,000 · OtherICMPCTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $22,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYThe Smallpiece Trust: $17,953 · Other+26 more: $139,777 · Other+26 moreOperation Motorsport Program Foundation: $202,000 · Human ServicesOperation Motorsport Program…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross …GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $55,747 · EducationBLACK GIRLS CODE INCThurgood Marshall College Fund: $50,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall Col…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institu…Rochester Institute of Technology: $7,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $140,317 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID F…+1 more: $3,750 · PhilanthropyNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $8,654 · Civil RightsNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $25,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $5,000 · Crime & LegalBROWN UNIVERSITY: $27,500 · Community Improvement
Other$343,497Human Services$257,000Education$198,247Philanthropy$144,067Civil Rights$33,654Crime & Legal$30,000Community Improvement$27,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $140,317 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $55,747 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEED THE FRONT LINE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $8,654 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare League of Arlington: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,000 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Crowdstrike Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Crowdstrike 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home