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· Private foundation
CRENSHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$40k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants
1
Communities
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Environment$100kHuman Services$20kEducation$14kHealth$11kArts & Culture$10kOther$43k
02FY2023 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$546k
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA$40,000
02The need
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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, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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Beauregard Health System Foundation Inc
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
Health
2
Patrons for Bellaire Parks
Support of the public parks in Bellaire, TX, to enhance the health, safety, and educational well-being of the local community.
Recreation & Sports
3
Northeast Hospital Foundation
Raise funds for healthcare programs & services for residents of the greater Humble, TX area.
Health
4
Blanco Good Samaritan Center Inc
To help individuals and families in need in blanco county texas
Human Services
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
San Antonio Report
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
Arts & Culture
8
St Mark's Medical Center Foundation
To provide support for hospitals in or near La Grange, TX.
Philanthropy
9
South Texas Rural Health Services
South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. provides charitable health services, including the recruitment of health care personnel to the rural service area, and primarily serves the low income population.
Health
10
Alzheimer's Texas Inc
Enhancing care and support services for individuals their families while providing leadership to eliminate alzheimers disease
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11
North Texas Rehabilitation Foundation
The North Texas Rehabilitation Foundation is organized for the purpose of receiving gifts and grants of money and property to be used exclusively to provide necessary funds for the operation and maintenance of North Texas Rehabilitation…
Health
12
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
Human Services
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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Environment$100,000Other$42,735Human Services$20,000Education$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
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 FoundationTX20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Mechia Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · The Talley Bryan Foundation · Juanita Parker Corbin Charitable Tr · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NECHES RIVER FESTIVAL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +93% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 741462495 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NECHES RIVER FESTIVAL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Crenshaw Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Crenshaw Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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