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Crowder Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 13
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$481k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Crowder Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$17k0%
FY202412$17k8%
FY202313$18k15%
FY202212$13k8%
FY202113$16kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Songs4soldiers Nfp$9,15550%
Life Community Church$9,0005n/a
Cahokia Community Baskets$8,0005n/a
Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East$8,00051%
Hope Christian Church$8,0005n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,00050%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$5,00050%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$2,50050%
Columbia Volunteer Fire Department$2,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$1,00020%
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All grantees of Crowder Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Songs4soldiers Nfp$9,15550%
Life Community Church$9,0005n/a
Cahokia Community Baskets$8,0005n/a
Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East$8,00051%
Hope Christian Church$8,0005n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,00050%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$5,00050%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$2,50050%
Columbia Volunteer Fire Department$2,0001n/a
Smile Train Inc$1,00020%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of St Louis$1,00010%
St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation$1,00010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$50010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Crowder Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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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.

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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.

About Crowder Family Foundation

How much does Crowder Family Foundation give?
Crowder Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $16,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Crowder Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Health (23%), Religion (21%).
Who are Crowder Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Songs4soldiers Nfp ($9k), Life Community Church ($9k), Cahokia Community Baskets ($8k).
Does Crowder Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Crowder Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Crowder Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Crowder Family Foundation based?
Crowder Family Foundation is based in IL.

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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