Texas · Private foundation
Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $168k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $11,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $23,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $168k | 77% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $502k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $181k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $180k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $190k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobilize the Church | $580,000 | 5 | 33% |
| Media Research Center | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vision Africa Ministries Inc | $83,500 | 4 | 5% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Collin Creek Assisted Living Center Inc | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dallasfort Worth Labrador Retriever Rescue Club Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hunt Preservation Society Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 48% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobilize the Church | $580,000 | 5 | 33% |
| Media Research Center | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Vision Africa Ministries Inc | $83,500 | 4 | 5% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Collin Creek Assisted Living Center Inc | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dallasfort Worth Labrador Retriever Rescue Club Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hunt Preservation Society Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 48% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ingram Warrior Homes Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Sent Church | $12,500 | 2 | n/a |
| The Gatehouse Corporation | $11,000 | 1 | 30% |
| The Stepping Stones Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Operation Kindness | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lakeside Community Theatre Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Patriot Paws Service Dogs | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lamar High School Alumni Associatio | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation
- How much does Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation give?
- Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $168,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (54%), Public Benefit (16%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mobilize the Church ($580k), Media Research Center ($90k), Vision Africa Ministries Inc ($84k).
- Does Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation 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 Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation based?
- Earlane & Sam Croom Foundation is based in TX.
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