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Crawford Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $550k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $100,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $100,000 |
| UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES | $100,000 |
| LA REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ARROYOS AND FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| DOOR OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $50,000 |
| KCET | $35,000 |
| UCI HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PALEY CENTER OF MEDIA | $25,000 |
| HARAMBEE | $25,000 |
| FOSTERALL | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +58%
- FPFLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $920k · revenue +42%
- USUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $650k · revenue +379%
Funded once
Feeding Americaone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +23%
CATALYST CALIFORNIAone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -5%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Los Angeles River and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 75 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds ARROYOS & FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FOSTERALL ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds USC VERDUGO HILLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION LEAGUE OF THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
- Who funds SWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Horizons · Berns Team Blessings Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Sempra Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Crawford Family Foundation 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.
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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