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The Edward F Crawford 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
- Under $10k15 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Common Park Ohio Holdings Corp.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| IN MOTION | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $15,000 |
| CHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOWS INC | $15,000 |
| HILLCREST HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| TWO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOLY NAME | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
| JOHN F TURBEN CHRISTMAS FUND | $5,000 |
| IRISH GARDEN CLUB | $4,413 |
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 (FY17–20, $6k) 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.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- TFTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE5× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +603%
- IINMOTION3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +10%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- ACAMBASSADOR CRAWFORD FOUNDATION OF BOHERBUEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HBHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL-SCARAVILLI FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BHBUILDING HOPE IN THE CITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +282%
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.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
To serve as a center for excellence in the provision of specialized health care services and comfort for patients and families coping with catastrophic illness and injury.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
We, mount carmel health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mount carmel health system is a member of trinity health.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Welcome House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amvets Post 1971 Inc. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 13% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 63 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 IRISH GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAGRIN VALLEY PHA HORSE SHOWS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAYO SOCIETY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE IN THE CITY ↗
- Who funds Family Legacy Missions International ↗
- Who funds ROOTED IN TREES ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRISH AMERICAN ARCHIVES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds EDNA HOUSE FOR WOMEN 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 Cleveland Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Connor Foundation · The Joseph and Florence Mandel Family- Penni M and Stephen J Weinberg Family Fund · Susan & John Turben Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Crawford Family Foundation · The Allayne and Douglas Wick Foundation (formerly Maradele 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 Edward F Crawford 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.
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