· Private foundation
Crum Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First United Methodist Church of Montgomery | $63,000 |
| University of Alabama Law School Foundation | $35,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $15,000 |
| Calvin College | $10,000 |
| The University of Alabama | $10,000 |
| Turning Point USA | $5,500 |
| PreSchool Partners | $3,000 |
| Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts | $2,500 |
| Huntingdon College | $2,000 |
| Alabama Institue for the Deaf and Blind Foundation | $2,000 |
| The Montgomery Academy | $1,500 |
| Sweet Briar College | $1,500 |
| Stegall Seminary Scholarship Foundation | $1,500 |
| The Pine School | $1,500 |
| McGill Toolen Foundation | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2020–2025 · $93k · revenue +106%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $67k · revenue +79%
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- FUFirst United Methodist Church of Montogmeryone grant, 2020 · $52k
- MHMontgomery Histroical Societyone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
The mission of samford university is to nurture persons in their development of intellect, creativity, faith, and personhood. as a christian university, the community fosters academic, career, and ethical competency while encouraging…
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 138 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds The Pine School Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUNSHINE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BOTANICAL GARDEN AT OAK PARK ↗
- Who funds Rise Up Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND ↗
- Who funds ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
- Who funds CAMP ODAYIN ↗
- Who funds CLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET TISHA RHODES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Landa Fund · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · The Hobbs Foundation · Alfa Foundation · John and Joyce Caddell 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 Crum Family Charitable 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.
- The Pine School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.