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Crenshaw Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$453k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA$40,000
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 (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 its 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
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 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
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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nutrition and Services for Seniors; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSome Other Place: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHAMPIONSHIP HEARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNECHES RIVER FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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
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.

Mechia FoundationMamie McFaddin Ward H…Greater Houston Commu…Juanita Parker Corbin…Thomas Joseph Frank F…The Talley Bryan Foun…He and Kate Dishman C…Beaumont Foundation o…Foundation for Southe…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
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

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 Crenshaw Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crenshaw Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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 18 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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