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The John Crosland III

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.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$176kEnvironment$103kAnimals$67kCivil Rights$30kYouth Development$20kReligion$14kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$131k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL$100,000
WOODWARD FUND CLASS OF 19$20,000
WOODWARD ACADEMY$15,000
CHRIST CHURCH CHARLOTTE$2,500
LINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD$2,000
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY$1,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,500
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION$1,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE$1,000
AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$1,000
THE MONTICELLO ASSOCIATION$1,000
NC WILDLIFE FEDERATION$1,000
MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO$1,000
OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY$1,000
GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIERRA CLUB: $1k → 8%THE NATURE CONSERVATORY: $3k → 11%SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 12%NC ZOO SOCIETY: $25k → 14%BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%LINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD: $2k → 15%WOODWARD FUND CLASS OF 19: $20k → 13%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2k → 7%MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO: $1k → 8%THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST: $1k → 8%OPEN DOOR CAFE: $1k → 16%THE MONTICELLO ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVATORY: $1k → 11%SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 12%NC ZOO SOCIETY: $25k → 14%BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 15%WOODWARD ACADEMY: $15k → 13%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2k → 7%MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO: $1k → 8%THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST: $1k → 8%OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 12%NC ZOO SOCIETY: $2k → 14%BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%LINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD: $1k → 15%WOODWARD ACADEMY: $10k → 13%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 7%MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO: $1k → 8%THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST: $1k → 8%MUSIC FOR GHANA: $3k → 10%SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 12%NC ZOO SOCIETY: $1k → 14%WOODWARD ACADEMY: $1k → 13%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 7%MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO: $1k → 8%SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $1k → 17%TARHEEL TRAILBLAZERS: $10k → 10%SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $1k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $1k → 17%GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 10%CHRIST CHURCH CHARLOTTE: $3k → 10%THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL: $100k → 10%THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL: $50k → 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.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$380k · 35 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -68% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
9

Total granted

$380k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-68%

Still filing today

66%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +165%
  • GM
    GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +28%
  • WA
    WOODWARD ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • PF
    PROJECT FREEDOM
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • TT
    Tarheel Trailblazers
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -68%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

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
North Carolina Conservation Network

The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
4
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
5
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment
6
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.

Recreation & Sports
7
Conserving Carolina

To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.

Environment
8
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
9
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
10
Conservation Trust for North Carolina

Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…

Environment
11
North Carolina Zoological Society Inc

To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.

Animals
12
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Parks Conservation Association and the most unlike its peers is Tarheel Trailblazers. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionAffordable Housing Developm…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsCancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceFallen First Responder Supp…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Land Conservation Organizat…
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 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr12%44%35–55yr12%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr12%56%35–55yr12%17%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,153

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

26 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL — $150,000 · OtherTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOLNC ZOO SOCIETY — $53,250 · OtherNC ZOO SOCIETYPROJECT FREEDOM — $30,000 · OtherPROJECT FREEDOMWOODWARD FUND CLASS OF 19 — $20,000 · OtherWOODWARD FUND CLASS OF 19CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $10,750 · Other+24 more — $44,900 · Other+24 moreGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $55,500 · EnvironmentGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN S…Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy — $7,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Appalachian H…BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $5,750 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOU…NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $4,250 · EnvironmentNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc — $4,000 · EnvironmentCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC — $3,750 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $3,500 · EnvironmentCatawba Lands Conservancy — $3,300 · Environment+2 more — $2,750 · EnvironmentWOODWARD ACADEMY INC — $26,100 · EducationTarheel Trailblazers — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $2,800 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,150 · HealthBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO — $4,500 · AnimalsHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $2,000 · AnimalsTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST — $3,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$308,900Environment$89,800Education$26,100Recreation & Sports$10,000Health$9,950Animals$6,500Arts & Culture$3,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL — $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $55,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC — $26,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTarheel Trailblazers — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $5,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD INC — $5,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC — $3,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy — $3,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC — $2,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $2,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc — $650 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 THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL
  • Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds Tarheel Trailblazers
  • Who funds Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds LINVILLE CENTRAL RESCUE SQUAD INC
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds North Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc
  • Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST
  • Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC
  • Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc
  • Who funds LINVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
  • Who funds AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND 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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Gaston Community Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 John Crosland III 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 John Crosland III?

    Find your warmest path to The John Crosland III 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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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