· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHARLOTTE | $1,000 |
| OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY | $1,000 |
| MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO | $1,000 |
| AVERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE MONTICELLO ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| NC WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -68% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 LINVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John Crosland III funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John Crosland III. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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