Tennessee · Private foundation
Crichton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $380k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Crichton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $380k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $340k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $300k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $345k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $355k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $245k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc | $325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Tenn | $130,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Friends of Chattanooga Prep Inc | $115,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Maury Regional Heathcare Foundation | $110,000 | 6 | 2% |
| East Lake Expression Engine | $85,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Chatt Foundation | $85,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Casa of Maury County Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Hope for the Inner City Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Music Health Alliance Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 1% |
| South Central Family Center Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($450k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Crichton Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Jeff & Tina Adams Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · United Way of Maury County Inc
How this is measured
About Crichton Family Foundation
- How much does Crichton Family Foundation give?
- Crichton Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $380,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Crichton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Youth Development (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Crichton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc ($325k), Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Tenn ($130k), Friends of Chattanooga Prep Inc ($115k).
- Does Crichton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Crichton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Crichton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc, Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation.
- Where is Crichton Family Foundation based?
- Crichton Family Foundation is based in TN.
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