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Crenshaw Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192023.

Environment$100kEducation$21kHuman Services$21kHealth$11kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$453k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA$40,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BEAUMONT DREAM CENTER: $5k → 19%NUTRITION & SERVICES FOR SENIORS: $5k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $10k → 19%THE GARTH HOUSE: $8k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Northeast Hospital Foundation

Northeast Hospital Foundation was established to fund health care programs and services for Humble, TX, and the surrounding communities.

Health
2
Beauregard Health System Foundation Inc

To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.

Health
3
Blanco Good Samaritan Center Inc

To help individuals and families in need in Blanco County, Texas through a food pantry and snacks for food-insecure school children and emergency aid to families in the form of goods from the thrift store, linkages to other aid…

Human Services
4
The Northeastern State University Foundation Inc

The NSU Foundation was created exclusively to benefit Northeastern State University for charitable, benevolent, educational, scientific and literary purposes.

Education
5
Respite Care Sa Foundation

Holds endowment funds and supports Respite Care of San Antonio, Inc.

Health
6
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment
7
Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc

Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…

Education
8
Laurels House

Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…

9
Womens Sober House of Lufkin Inc

The Mantooth House is a Recovery Residence for Chemically Dependent adult women who have successfully completed primary treatment and are in early, but active recovery. We exist to provide quality recovery housing and bridge the gap…

Health
10
Share House Foundation

To provide support and resources to Share House and its clients in order for them to achieve their full potential, enhance their quality of life and promote meaningful participation in family and community.

Health
11
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services
12
Lsu Alumni Federation-Greater Houston Ch

Provide financial support to academic programs and student scholarships to Louisiana State University through various fundraising efforts.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nutrition and Services for Seniors and the most unlike its peers is Championship Hearts Foundation. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICASHORKEY CENTER — $10,000 · OtherSHORKEY CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $8,535 · OtherIndividual grant rec…THE CHURCH AT NORTHSIDE — $5,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH AT NORTHS…ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $3,700 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL…The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation — $3,000 · OtherThe W Oscar Neuhaus …Individual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…+3 more — $3,000 · Other+3 moreSome Other Place — $10,000 · Human ServicesSome Other Plac…Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc — $7,500 · Human ServicesGarth House Mic…BEAUMONT DREAM CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesBEAUMONT DREAM …NUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS — $5,000 · Human ServicesNUTRITION AND S…Lamar University Foundation Inc — $13,543 · EducationCHAMPIONSHIP HEARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthStable-Spirit — $1,000 · HealthNECHES RIVER FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$100,000Other$35,235Human Services$27,500Education$13,543Health$11,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA — $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc — $13,543 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNECHES RIVER FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHAMPIONSHIP HEARTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSome Other Place — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGarth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNUTRITION AND SERVICES FOR SENIORS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStable-Spirit — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Mechia FoundationTX22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mechia Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Juanita Parker Corbin Charitable Tr Charitable Trust · Thomas Joseph Frank Foundation · The Talley Bryan Foundation · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Beaumont Foundation of America · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Crenshaw 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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