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Crews Family Foundation at a glance

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Crews Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$44kPhilanthropy$12kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$5kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$2kCommunity Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST$13,750
Individual grant recipient$1,000
VBL CHARITY FOUNDATION INC$500
FARM NECK FOUNDATION$200
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%M&M COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $500 → 8%THE RIGHT WAY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 17%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $6k → 13%VBL CHARITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 7%THE BLOOMING BISTRO: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EDUCATION ABROAD: $500 → 11%FARM NECK FOUNDATION: $200 → 8%THE RIGHTWAY FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA: $1k → 13%TONI'S HOUSE: $1k → 13%LINKS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST: $16k → 8%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $600 → 13%TONI'S HOUSE: $1k → 13%VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST: $14k → 8%TONI'S HOUSE: $250 → 13%VGC FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST: $6k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $5k → 8%VINEYARD TRUST: $5k → 8%VINEYARD TRUST: $2k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD THEATER FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%VGC FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%VGC FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%VGC FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%VGC FOUNDATION: $100 → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM: $3k → 8%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 6 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$69k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
-17%

Still filing today

83%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +79%
  • VG
    V G C FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +18%
  • MC
    MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • I
    IAAG
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -46%
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
Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
Education
2
Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Inc

The martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…

Recreation & Sports
3
Stonehouse Inc
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4
Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard

The permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by makig grants that address community needs, funding scholarships for island…

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5
Island Housing Trust Corporation

To own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.

Housing & Shelter
6
Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc

The martha's vineyard community foundation, inc., successor to the permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by making…

Philanthropy
7
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc

Martha's vineyard playhouse is a professional, non-profit working theater dedicated to inspiring, enriching and entertaining our diverse island community. we believe that theater has the power to transform lives.

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8
Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
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9
Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group Inc

The martha's vineyard shellfish group, a non-profit consortium of the shellfish departments of six island towns, provides shellfish propagation services to increase the availability of juvenile commercially valuable molluscan shellfish…

Animals
10
Island Food Pantry of Martha's Vineyard Inc

The island food pantry of martha's vineyard, inc.'s mission is to improve and sustain the quality of life in dukes county, massachusetts through the operation of a food pantry to provide temporary food and personal items as needed to…

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11
The Vine Foundation
Religion
12
Mv Vision Fellowship Fund

To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tonis House 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $40,250 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INCMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INCVINEYARD TRUST: $7,000 · OtherVINEYARD TRUSTIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIAAG: $5,000 · OtherIAAGLINKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherLINKS FOUNDATIONMARTHA'S VINEYARD THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,500 · Other+3 moreV G C FOUNDATION INC: $8,600 · PhilanthropyV G C FOUNDA…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $6,100 · EducationThe Rightway Foundation: $4,678 · EmploymentTONIS HOUSE INC: $2,250 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$42,750Other$22,500Philanthropy$9,800Education$6,100Employment$4,678Housing & Shelter$2,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $40,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetV G C FOUNDATION INC: $8,600 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $6,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rightway Foundation: $4,678 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTONIS HOUSE INC: $2,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM NECK FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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