· Private foundation
Crawford-Howard Private 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 $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Minneapolis Foundation | $250,000 |
| Communit Foundation of Greater Memphis | $200,000 |
| Knowledge Quest | $100,000 |
| Capstone Education Group Inc | $100,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis | $100,000 |
| Carpenter Art GardenPurple House | $100,000 |
| Maple Street School | $100,000 |
| Girls Inc | $100,000 |
| Memphis Rise Academy Charter School | $100,000 |
| Memphis Teacher Residency Inc | $100,000 |
| Freedom Preparatory Academy | $85,000 |
| Service Over Self | $80,000 |
| Tech901 | $75,497 |
| Red Fox Community School | $69,600 |
| Presbyterian Day School | $65,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- CECAPSTONE EDUCATION GROUP INC7× · 2018–2024 · $700k · revenue +40%
- KQKNOWLEDGE QUEST INC7× · 2018–2024 · $661k · revenue +230%
- MTMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $625k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHISone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -20%
- CMCotton Museum at Memphis Cotton Exchsngeone grant, 2017 · $14k
- ADAlzheimer's Day Servicesone grant, 2022 · $14k
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.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
Our mission is to be a school for human flourishing: cultivating the minds, hands, and hearts of children in memphis for lives of wonder, work, and love.
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
Lead public schools exists to prepare all our students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and in life.
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The museum school celebrates, nurtures and enhances the ability of all participants through experimental, project-based learning. infusing the arts and utilizing resources available at local museums.
The montgomery academy develops leaders committed to honor, scholarship, service and the pursuit of excellence.
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…
The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Porter-Leath and the most unlike its peers is Shining Bright Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 60. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 CAPSTONE EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE QUEST INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRAYSER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Service Over Self Inc ↗
- Who funds MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds TECH901 ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND FAMILY ENRICHMENT AT IDLEWILD ↗
- Who funds LET'S INNOVATE THROUGH EDUCATION DBA LIT ↗
- Who funds RED FOX COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER ART GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS FOURTH ESTATE INC ↗
- Who funds Shining Bright Ministries ↗
- Who funds Athletic Opportunity Fund Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Crews Family Foundation · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Urban Child Institute · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · United Way of the Mid South · The Sims Family Charitable Trust 44-5001145
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-Howard Private 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.
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.