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Crc Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$212kEducation$211kHuman Services$183kReligion$76kHealth$33kPhilanthropy$16kYouth Development$16kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$522k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THEATRE UNDER THE STARS$5,000
ORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS$5,000
CHAPELWOOD FOUNDATION$5,000
BRIDGE YEAR$5,000
PAUL HOPE CABARETS$5,000
HOUSTON CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE$3,000
HOUSTON ALUMNAE PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION$2,500
CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $3k → 10%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $3k → 10%YMCA OF AUSTIN: $3k → 10%SUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON: $500 → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $15k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%BRIDGE YEAR: $5k → 16%BRIDGE YEAR: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$704k · 26 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
28

Total granted

$704k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+31%

Still filing today

69%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    Theatre Under the Stars Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +59%
  • OC
    ORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +538% · 79% of their budget
  • AD
    A D Players
    5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • United Way of Greater Houston
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +10%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MW
    MICHAEL W HOKE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
4
Houston Museum of Natural Science

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
6
Houston Tscpa Foundation

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

Community Improvement
7
University of Houston Foundation

University of Houston Foundation provides program support to University of Houston System for various scholarship and educational programs.

Education
8
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

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.

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9
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

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.

Youth Development
10
Arts Connect Houston

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.

Arts & Culture
11
The Awty International School

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…

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12
The Houston Parks Board Foundation

The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
29/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $104,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $71,500 · OtherCHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCHHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $46,000 · OtherHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $45,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHAPELWOOD FOUNDATION: $33,000 · OtherCHAPELWOOD FOUNDATIONLittle League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL: $14,000 · Other+26 more: $93,800 · Other+26 moreTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $62,500 · Arts & CultureTheatre Under the Stars IncORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS IN…A D Players: $54,750 · Arts & CultureA D Players+5 more: $20,300 · Arts & Culture+5 moreGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH F…MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $37,000 · EducationMEMORIAL HIGH …LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO: $17,000 · EducationLAMAR HIGH SCH…The Brookwood Community Inc: $3,500 · Education+3 more: $5,000 · EducationMemorial Assistance Ministries: $16,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEYEAR: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $7,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesHOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE: $28,000 · HealthTURN IT GOLD: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthUnited Way of Greater Houston: $12,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyIconoclast Artists: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AUSTIN COUNTY INC: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$407,300Arts & Culture$192,550Education$102,500Human Services$34,000Health$31,500Philanthropy$13,000Youth Development$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $62,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetORANGE COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 79% of budgetA D Players: $54,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $46,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $37,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE: $28,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO: $17,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLittle League Baseball Inc 3431607 Post Oak LL: $14,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEYEAR: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON ALUMNAE PANHELLENIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORANGE DEPOT: $5,800 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican Heritage Education Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTanglewood Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIconoclast Artists: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AUSTIN COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTURN IT GOLD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLVILLE TURNVEREIN PAVILION RESTORATION PROJECT: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMERHOUSE HOUSTON: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rotary Club of Houston Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Jack H & William M Li…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Houston Endowment IncThe Brown Foundation …The Elkins FoundationThe William Stamps Fa…The Medallion Foundat…MD Anderson FoundationBaxter Trust Co Priva…The Powell Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX33.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Crc Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crc Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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