· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| 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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
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