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Crowder Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Human Services$19kHealth$19kReligion$17kFood & Nutrition$11kInternational$9kYouth Development$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$481k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE$2,000
SONGS4SOLDIERS$2,000
GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF THE METRO EAST$2,000
HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH$2,000
CAHOKIA COMMUNITY BASKET$2,000
LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION$1,000
ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOIS$1,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$500
GARY SINSE FOUNDATION$500
SMILE TRAIN$500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $1k → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 6%ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOIS: $2k → 12%CAHOKIA COMMUNITY BASKET: $2k → 16%ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 6%ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOIS: $1k → 12%CAHOKIA COMMUNITY BASKET: $2k → 16%ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 6%ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOIS: $1k → 12%CAHOKIA COMMUNITY BASKET: $2k → 16%ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%SONGS4SOLDIERS: $2k → 6%ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOIS: $1k → 12%CAHOKIA COMMUNITY BASKET: $1k → 16%ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 6%ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOIS: $1k → 12%CAHOKIA COMMUNITY BASKET: $1k → 16%SONGS4SOLDIERS: $2k → 6%SMILE TRAIN: $1k → 16%COLUMBIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF THE METRO EAST: $2k → 16%HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF THE METRO EAST: $2k → 16%SONGS4SOLDIERS: $2k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF THE METRO EAST: $2k → 16%HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $2k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF THE METRO EAST: $1k → 16%LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 6%GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES OF THE METRO EAST: $1k → 16%SONGS4SOLDIERS: $2k → 6%SONGS4SOLDIERS: $2k → 6%HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $1k → 6%HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $1k → 6%LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1k → 6%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $3k → 6%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $2k → 6%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $2k → 6%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $2k → 6%HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$75k · 12 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$75k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SN
    SONGS4SOLDIERS NFP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +12%
  • GS
    Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CV
    COLUMBIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • ST
    SMILE TRAIN
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -26%

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

04Your field

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.

1
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc

American lebanese syrian associated charities, inc. (alsac) was founded in 1957 and exists solely to raise funds and build awareness to sustain and grow the mission of st. jude children's research hospital, inc. to advance cures, and means…

Religion
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
7
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
8
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
9
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
10
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
11
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East. 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 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICE — $9,500 · OtherHOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY SERVICELIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH — $9,000 · OtherLIFE COMMUNITY CHURCHCAHOKIA COMMUNITY BASKETS — $8,000 · OtherCAHOKIA COMMUNITY BASKETSHOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $8,000 · OtherHOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCHADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOIS — $6,100 · OtherADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE ILLINOISGARY SINSE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherGARY SINSE FOUNDATIONCOLUMBIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $2,000 · Other+3 more — $3,000 · Other+3 moreSONGS4SOLDIERS NFP — $9,155 · Arts & CultureSONGS4SOLDIE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,500 · HealthNATIONAL MUL…ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthST LOUIS CHI…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $500 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC …Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East — $8,000 · ReligionGood Samari…ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$49,600Arts & Culture$9,155Health$9,000Religion$8,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSONGS4SOLDIERS NFP — $9,155 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGood Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East — $8,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SONGS4SOLDIERS NFP
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Crowder 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Crowder Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Crowder Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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