· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- TJTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL2× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +165%
- GMGRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +28%
- WAWOODWARD ACADEMY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- PFPROJECT FREEDOMone grant, 2023 · $30k
- TTTarheel Trailblazersone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -68%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
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.
To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.
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…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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…
To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.
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.
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.
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 field is 26% 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 15% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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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