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FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC

FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,399,084 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ($5,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$6.4M
Net assets
$13M
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 93%
01What it does

What Friends of Craft Inc does

Mission

Support and perform paleoanthropological research.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Public forums for paleoanthropological research.

    $27,789 spent
    3% of program spending
  2. Grants to preserve paleoanthropological information..

  3. On site paleoanthropological research.

    $932,034 spentof which $7,000 as grants
    97% of program spending
  4. Sponsor forums on paleoanthropological research.

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $959,823.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($501k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($7.3M)2018 Revenue 172 ($863k) Expenses 120 ($1.3M) Net assets 94 ($6.8M)2019 Revenue 235 ($1.2M) Expenses 96 ($1.1M) Net assets 95 ($6.9M)2020 Revenue 125 ($626k) Expenses 51 ($566k) Net assets 96 ($7.0M)2021 Revenue 189 ($947k) Expenses 51 ($560k) Net assets 101 ($7.4M)2022 Revenue -5 ($-26438) Expenses 44 ($492k) Net assets 94 ($6.9M)2023 Revenue 1110 ($5.6M) Expenses 69 ($760k) Net assets 160 ($12M)2024 Revenue 392 ($2.0M) Expenses 103 ($1.1M) Net assets 171 ($12M)2025 Revenue 304 ($1.5M) Expenses 69 ($764k) Net assets 182 ($13M)
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Revenue (304)Expenses (69)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6.9M to $12M (+70%).

$7.3M
$6.8M
$7.0M
$7.0M
$7.4M
$6.9M
$12M
$13M
$13M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 184 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$606k
’17
−$467k
’18
$115k
’19
$59k
’20
$386k
’21
−$519k
’22
$4.8M
’23
$821k
’24
$761k
’25
7.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed81111111111141413
Joined·+3+0+0+0+0+4+0+0
No longer listed·00000101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $400k → $5.2M.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC’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

FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC.

78%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.

“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

78% of FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states.

PA
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.

Operating margin50% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC

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In Indiana

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC?
FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,399,084 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ($5,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $6,399,084 in grants to FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CRAFT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 4 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing