Tennessee · Private foundation
Crews Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2024
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,140,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $108M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Crews Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 61 | $5.0M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $3.9M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $5.5M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $5.5M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $2.2M | 16% |
| FY2019 | 70 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 62 | $1.5M | 29% |
| FY2017 | 62 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Memphis Foundation | $9,440,360 | 8 | 6% |
| Youth Villages Inc | $3,975,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $1,834,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Memphis Teacher Residency Inc | $1,275,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Mifa Corporation | $650,000 | 8 | 85% |
| United Way of the Mid South | $641,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | $600,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Slingshot Memphis Inc | $600,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $540,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Agape Child and Family Services Inc | $405,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Crews Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Slingshot Memphis Inc · The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc · Wiseheart Foundation Inc · United Way of the Mid South · Thomas Garrott Foundation · Plough Foundation · The Urban Child Institute
How this is measured
About Crews Family Foundation
- How much does Crews Family Foundation give?
- Crews Family Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $5,025,433 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Crews Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Human Services (18%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Crews Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Memphis Foundation ($9.4M), Youth Villages Inc ($4.0M), Teach for America Inc ($1.8M).
- Does Crews Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Crews Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Crews Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation.
- Where is Crews Family Foundation based?
- Crews Family Foundation is based in TN.
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