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The Joseph C Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund

To support its specified publicly supported section 501(c)(3) beneficiary, the croft institute for international studies, and other charitable and educational section 501(c)(3) organizations which support and further the exempt charitable and educational purposes of the croft institute.

$1.4M
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172023.

Education$7.5MCommunity Improvement$30kOther$1.5M
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,155,578
Median grant
1
States reached
$204M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES$1,155,578
UNIVERSIFY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING$250,000
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 24%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 24%CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1.2M → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL SCHOOL: $255k → 23%CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1.1M → 18%CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1.1M → 18%CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1.1M → 18%CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1.0M → 18%CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1.0M → 18%CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1.0M → 18%UNIVERSIFY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING: $250k → 18%UNIVERSIFY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING: $250k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL SCHOOL: $250k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL SCHOOL: $250k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL SCHOOL: $250k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI ATHLETHIC FOUNDATION: $58k → 18%OTHER: $22k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.0M · 4 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$9.0M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+95%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CI
    CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +11% · 93% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k

Funded once

  • OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue +95%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 6 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $7,483,195 · EducationCROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES+2 more — $63,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTER — $1,005,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISS…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI — $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISS…THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MS INC — $30,360 · Community Improvement
Education$7,546,195Other$1,505,000Community Improvement$30,360

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $7,483,195 over 8y, 93% of budgetOLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION — $58,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MS INC — $30,360 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 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 CROFT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
  • Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MS INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Joseph C Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to The Joseph C Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Joseph C Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund 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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.9M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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