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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 FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$14MHuman Services$4.7MCommunity Improvement$2.1MReligion$763kHealth$748kInternational$736kPhilanthropy$682kFood & Nutrition$543kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $521k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $985k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.4M
$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$108M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHURCH HEALTH CENTER$100,000
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK$100,000
MIFA$100,000
NEW LEADERS$100,000
SLINGSHOT MEMPHIS$100,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MID-SOUTH$100,000
NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE$50,000
ARISE 2 READ$40,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$30,000
THE GOODWILL EXCEL CENTER$30,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%BADDOUR CENTER: $5k → 19%PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%BADDOUR CENTER: $5k → 19%BADDOUR CENTER: $5k → 19%BADDOUR CENTER: $1k → 19%BADDOUR CENTER: $1k → 19%BADDOUR CENTER: $1k → 19%BADDOUR CENTER: $750 → 19%THISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES INC: $15k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $5k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $5k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $5k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $5k → 17%MY CUP OF TEA: $5k → 17%PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY CENTER: $20k → 17%PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY CENTER: $10k → 17%PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY CENTER: $10k → 17%PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY CENTER: $10k → 17%PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY CENTER: $5k → 17%PAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY CENTER: $5k → 17%RESOURCE REDISTRIBUTION MINISTRY: $3k → 17%RISE MEMPHIS INC: $3k → 17%RISE MEMPHIS INC: $1k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF: $3k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF (SOS): $2k → 17%EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF (SOS): $2k → 17%SERVICE OVER SELF (SOS): $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
MO
AZ
TN
NC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 88 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
33

Total granted

$26M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+26%

Still filing today

61%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.4M · revenue +227%
  • YOUTH VILLAGES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +140%
  • MT
    MEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • LC
    Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +138%
  • LI
    LET'S INNOVATE THROUGH EDUCATION DBA LIT
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -31%
  • Southern Methodist Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +26%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
2
One Family Memphis
Human Services
3
Memphis Tomorrow

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.

Community Improvement
4
City Leadership

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…

Public Benefit
5
Mission Mississippi

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.

Civil Rights
6
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
7
Allmemphis Inc

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.

Education
8
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

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9
Reach Memphis

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…

Education
10
The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

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…

Health
12
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 127 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
42/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $9,440,360 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATIONTeach for America Inc: $1,834,000 · EducationTeach for America IncMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC: $1,275,000 · EducationMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC+10 more: $1,137,300 · Education+10 moreYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $3,975,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC+10 more: $329,760 · Human Services+10 moreNEW LEADERS: $875,000 · OtherNEW LEADERSTHE TREZEVANT FOUNDATION: $466,000 · OtherTHE TREZEVANT FOUNDATI…AGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $405,000 · OtherAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY…TRIUMPH BANK FOUNDATION: $313,500 · OtherTRIUMPH BANK FOUNDATIO…EPICENTER: $200,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $188,975 · OtherNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE: $315,000 · OtherNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE+81 more: $2,605,080 · Other+81 moreUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $641,000 · PhilanthropySLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $600,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $41,000 · PhilanthropyMIFA CORPORATION: $650,000 · Community ImprovementTHE SOCIETY OF ENTREPRENEURS INC: $26,599 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,500 · Community ImprovementCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $600,000 · HealthLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $28,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 · Health+5 more: $13,100 · HealthMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $540,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$13,686,660Human Services$4,304,760Other$5,368,555Philanthropy$1,282,000Community Improvement$679,099Health$667,100Food & Nutrition$540,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $9,440,360 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $3,975,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,834,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEMPHIS TEACHER RESIDENCY INC: $1,275,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetMIFA CORPORATION: $650,000 over 8y, 85% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $641,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $600,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSLINGSHOT MEMPHIS INC: $600,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $540,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAGAPE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $405,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC: $317,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE: $315,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetARISE2READ INC: $315,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $233,300 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMY CITY RIDES: $150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMEMPHIS YOUTH ATHLETICS INC: $107,500 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetSu Casa Family Ministries: $105,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetMEMPHIS UNION MISSON: $105,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBinghampton Christian Academy Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFRAYSER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $89,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $85,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETS MINISTRIES INC: $85,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $62,260 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetPORTER-LEATH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEMPHIS GRIZZLIES PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $45,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLIERVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetFOR THE KINGDOM INC: $40,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMemphis Inner City Rugby: $40,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL: $36,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSHELBY FARMS PARK CONSERVANCY: $28,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ENTREPRENEURS INC: $26,599 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Cup of Tea Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetADVANCE MEMPHIS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP EMPOWERMENT CENTER INC FORMERLY YOUTH VISIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BADDOUR CENTER INC: $18,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH LEADERSHIP OF MEMPHIS: $16,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL STREET INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% 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.

  • 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 THE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS YOUTH ATHLETICS INC ↗
  • Who funds Su Casa Family Ministries ↗
  • Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
  • Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Binghampton Christian Academy Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN97.2× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 127 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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