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Crowley Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Crowley Family Foundation Inc

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$49kHealth$22kFood & Nutrition$21kReligion$15kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$3k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$256k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH$15,000
MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,700
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$2,500
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$2,500
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$1,000
LAFOLLETTE BOOSTER CLUB$500
MADISON READING PROJECT$281
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $5k → 17%MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN: $3k → 17%FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $2k → 17%MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1k → 17%MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1k → 17%MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN: $10k → 10%SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN: $5k → 10%SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%CARBONE CANCER CENTER: $10k → 10%CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15k → 10%MADISON METROPOLITIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3k → 10%LAFOLLETTE BOOSTER CLUB: $500 → 10%MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $300 → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%MADISON READING PROJECT: $281 → 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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 4 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$68k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
EducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +23%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
    3× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue -6%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue -8%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • CC
    CARBONE CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • HD
    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
2
Madison Development Corporation

Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.

Community Improvement
3
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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4
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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5
Madison County Hospital Foundation

Through charitable gifts and fund-raising activities, the madison county hospital foundation supports madison county community hospital and close-to-home health care services.

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6
Madison Teachers Inc

Madison teachers incorporated (mti) is a labor union representing teachers, substitute teachers, educational assistants, clerical/technical employees, and school security assistants who are employed by the madison metropolitan school…

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7
Milwaukee Public Schools Admin and Supervisors Council Inc

Milwaukee public school administrators and supervisors council inc. was formed in 1971 to serve as the exclusive bargaining agent for its membership, via collection of dues as the primary source of revenue.

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8
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
9
Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee school of engineering (msoe) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level in the disciplines of engineering business, mathematics, and nursing. (see schedule o)…

Education
10
Midwestern University Properties Corp

Title holding company for an exempt organization.

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11
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
12
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Public Schools Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,700 · EducationMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION+2 more: $800 · EducationCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INCCARBONE CANCER CENTER: $10,000 · OtherCARBONE CANCER CENTERHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $5,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICAMADISON METROPOLITIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3,000 · OtherMADISON METROPOLITIAN SCHOOL DISTRICTFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Other+2 more: $2,563 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $17,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST F…FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC: $2,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,000 · HealthMADISON READING PROJECT INC: $281 · Youth Development
Education$49,000Other$48,063Food & Nutrition$17,500Health$4,500Youth Development$281

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 budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $1,563 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFOLLETTE BOOSTER CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $300 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 Evjue Foundation …Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Evjue Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Crowley Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crowley Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 16 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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