· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $521k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $985k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION | $2,140,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $1,050,000 |
| MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY | $250,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL | $230,000 |
| AGAPE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC | $105,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MID-SOUTH | $100,000 |
| SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS | $100,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH CENTER | $100,000 |
| MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| MIFA | $100,000 |
| NEW LEADERS | $100,000 |
| NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| ARISE 2 READ | $40,000 |
| THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER | $30,000 |
| MY CITY RIDES | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
88 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $9.4M · revenue +227%
YOUTH VILLAGES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +140%- MTMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +4%
Funded once
- LCLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +138%
- LILET'S INNOVATE THROUGH EDUCATION DBA LITone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -31%
Southern Methodist Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.
City leadership's mission is to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the benefit of the city of memphis. the organization was founded in order to maximize the leadership capital and potential of memphis. city leadership strives to…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Allmemphis, inc. works to equip teachers and literacy coaches in partner schools with orton-gillingham training, then provides a multi-year in-school mentorship to support the implementation of the approach.
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
Reach memphis helps high achieving students from shelby county public schools succeed in high school, college and beyond using a continuum of services including summer educational experiences, college readiness planning and counseling, and…
The mission is to create memorable learning experiences through the joy of play, in hands-on exhibits and programs. we accomplish this mission by reaching out to the mid-south school children, families, and the tourist visitor.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Ornamental Metal Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 127 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ARISE2READ INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MY CITY RIDES ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds THE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS YOUTH ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds Su Casa Family Ministries ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
- Who funds Binghampton Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRAYSER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds STREETS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
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.
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
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 Crews 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.
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.