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Crowe 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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$80kAnimals$56kHealth$42kYouth Development$27kCrime & Legal$11kHuman Services$11kEducation$7kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$839k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NO KID HUNGRY$10,000
LISTEN FOOD PANTRY$10,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$10,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $10k → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $5k → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $3k → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $500 → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $10k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $10k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 10%SPECTRUM: $500 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
MD
KS
NC
DC
TX
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$166k · 11 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$166k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+17%

Still filing today

73%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TD
    The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc
    6× · 2018–2023 · $52k · revenue +442%
  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +50%
  • KS
    KING STREET CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE CARE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +162%
  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +28%
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
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
2
Vermont Family Network Inc

Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.

Human Services
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.

Animals
5
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc

The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…

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6
Sweet Farm Foundation

Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…

Animals
7
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

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8
Vermont Trails & Greenways Council

To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.

Environment
9
Land for Good Inc

Ensure the future of farming in by putting more farmers more securely on more land in new england and beyond. each year we help thousands of farmers, landowners, professionals and communities navigate the complex challenges of farmland…

Environment
10
Vermont Network Against Domestic an Sexual Violence Inc

The vermont network aims to uproot the causes of domestic and sexual violence in vermont and create a world free of oppression where actions, beliefs and systems support all people to thrive. we accomplish this through our key programs…

Human Services
11
Glynwood Center Inc

Glynwood cultivates just and resilient regional food systems so that communities, farmers and the land thrive.

Public Benefit
12
Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Inc

To conduct charitable, scientific and educational activities designed to foster the production of food in a manner that is economically viable and environmentally sound and provides for healthy and humanely raised products.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelburne Farms; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

19 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. 19 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT: $11,000 · OtherPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONTUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE CARE: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSP…LISTEN FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · OtherLISTEN FOOD PANTRYNO KID HUNGRY: $10,000 · OtherNO KID HUNGRYNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKVERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-YOUTH & FAMILIES FUND: $7,250 · OtherVERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-YOUTH & FAM…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHAMPLAIN SINGLE PARENT FUND: $5,000 · OtherCHAMPLAIN SINGLE PARENT FUNDNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $4,000 · OtherVermont Childrens Trust Foundation: $3,090 · Other+9 more: $16,315 · Other+9 moreThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc: $52,000 · AnimalsThe Dorset Equine Rescu…+2 more: $2,000 · AnimalsKING STREET CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENTER …SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesSHELBURNE FOOD SHEL…SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND …THE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE DOUG FLUT…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber C…National Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthNational Kidn…SHELBURNE FARMS: $26,150 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE F…DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $256 · EducationHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$91,655Animals$54,000Human Services$44,000Health$30,000Environment$26,150Education$7,256Crime & Legal$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc: $52,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $26,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC: $18,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT: $11,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVermont Childrens Trust Foundation: $3,090 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL BREED RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Families in Transition Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $256 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Vermont Community…National Life Group C…Francis T & Louis T N…The Morris & Bessie A…Turrell FundBen & Jerry's Foundat…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Turrell Fund · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Crowe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crowe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Prevent Child Abuse Vermont: 58% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Aldrich Public Library: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Crowe Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Crowe 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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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