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Crowley Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2021
16
Grants FY2021
15
Organizations funded FY2021
80%
First-time grantees FY2021
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96% of Crowley Family Charitable Trust’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Crowley Family Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $12k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’17
7
’18
11
’19
11
’20
5
’21
1
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$500
Largest grant, FY2021
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 80% of the organizations Crowley Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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
FY202115$12k80%
FY202015$9k80%
FY201915$21k80%
FY201813$35k69%
FY201718$48kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$159kHealth$77kEducation$27kRecreation & Sports$9kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$1kEmployment$500Crime & Legal$350Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
MD
SC
OK
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 34 grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Crowley Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $7,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlay Ball Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFalmouth Road Race Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNoble and Greenough School: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNativity School of Worcester Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Scholarship Fund of Concord and Carlisle: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Concord Carlisle Football Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEmerson Health Care Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRunway for Recovery Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFidelity House Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Nashua Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMdrc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Casa Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Space Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHospice & Palliative Care Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Ministries Florence: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Cardiac Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Suburban Young Men's Christian Association: $100 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 31.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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About Crowley Family Charitable Trust

How much does Crowley Family Charitable Trust give?
Crowley Family Charitable Trust reported 16 grants totaling $11,550 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Crowley Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (55%), Health (27%), Education (9%).
Who are Crowley Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ($50k), Northeastern University ($8k), Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc ($8k).
Does Crowley Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Crowley Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Crowley Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Crowley Family Charitable Trust based?
Crowley Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 66 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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