California · Nonprofit
CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION
CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being THE DRAPER FOUNDATION ($325,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Kelson Foundationshared funders
- Irving & Francine Suknow Foundation Co-Trustees Henry Fader & Lynda Gordonportfolio match
- The Tyler Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
15% of CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $75k → $100k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Kelson Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Irving & Francine Suknow Foundation Co-Trustees Henry Fader & Lynda Gordonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tyler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Irving and Varda Rabin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jack Yanoff Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of California Community Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feinstein Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation Iportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Cultureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Isakow Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewish Federation of Greater Long Beach & West Orange Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Jewish Community Federation of Sf · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION?
- CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,000 to it, the largest being THE DRAPER FOUNDATION ($325,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $500,000 in grants to CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION?
- THE DRAPER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing