The Crane Fund for Widows and Children was founded as a charitable trust in 1914 under the laws of the State of Illinois. The Fund provides grants to charitable agencies serving the needy and disadvantaged and to educational institutions in support of scholarships for financially needy students whose parents are deceased, or, for other reasons, are financially unable to provide for their children’s education.

The Crane Fund for Widows and Children is administered in such a way that most contributions are channeled through the individual operating units of Crane Co. and its subsidiaries and are made to organizations serving the local communities of these operations. Crane Co., formerly a plumbing business, now manufactures highly engineered materials for aerospace and other industries.

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