· Private foundation
Crc Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $32,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $28,500 |
| ORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB | $17,500 |
| AD PLAYERS | $5,750 |
| BRIDGE YEAR | $5,000 |
| THEATRE UNDER THE STARS | $5,000 |
| ORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS | $5,000 |
| CHAPELWOOD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PAUL HOPE CABARETS | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE | $3,000 |
| HOUSTON ALUMNAE PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TUTheatre Under the Stars Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +59%
- OCORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC3× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +538% · 79% of their budget
- ADA D Players5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +49%
Funded once
United Way of Greater Houstonone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +10%- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
Develop, promote, and present programs of continuing education and professional development interest to cpas in the houston area. the foundation also has fundraising programs for endowments and chartiable causes
University of Houston Foundation provides program support to University of Houston System for various scholarship and educational programs.
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Arts Connect Houston unites with the greater Houston community to ensure access to high-quality arts education in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts for every student, beginning with Houston ISD.
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Turn It Gold. 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 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 59 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 Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds A D Players ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE ↗
- Who funds LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds Little League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEYEAR ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON ALUMNAE PANHELLENIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORANGE DEPOT ↗
- Who funds Houston Center for Musical Arts ↗
- Who funds American Heritage Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Tanglewood Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AUSTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TURN IT GOLD ↗
- Who funds Iconoclast Artists ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Medallion Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Powell 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 Crc Family Charitable 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.