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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$698kPublic Benefit$205kArts & Culture$95kHuman Services$87kEducation$82kAnimals$36kFood & Nutrition$25kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $166k
$11,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISION AFRICA MINISTRIES$23,500
CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE$20,000
KIDS MATTER$20,000
INGRAM WARRIOR HOMES$15,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$15,000
DAY SPRING SENIOR LIVING$11,000
GATEHOUSE$11,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WEST DALLAS SCHOOL$10,000
MOBILIZE THE CHURCH$10,000
STEPPING STONES FOUNDATION$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
SENT CHURCH$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+129%

Still filing today

60%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionPublic BenefitAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MT
    Mobilize the Church
    5× · 2020–2024 · $580k · revenue +32% · 33% of their budget
  • VA
    VISION AFRICA MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +46%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • DT
    DELTA TAU DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • HP
    HUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +379% · 48% of their budget
  • BC
    BLUEPRINT COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
4
Leadership Revolution Inc

Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.

Religion
5
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
6
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
7
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
8
The Liberal Patriot Inc

The liberal patriot (tlp) is a digital newsletter focused on american politics and public policy. tlp aims to provide readers with honest analysis and original commentary to help advance a vital center perspective in american life.

Civil Rights
9
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
10
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
11
Liberty Guard Inc

To identify policies that infringe, restrict, reduce or otherwise diminish the personal freedoms and individual liberty of u.s. citizens and residents and to educate/motivate the public to engage in the public policy process to protect…

Civil Rights
12
Fdd Action

FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Stepping Stones Foundation. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mobilize the Church — $580,000 · ReligionMobilize the ChurchVISION AFRICA MINISTRIES INC — $83,500 · ReligionVISION AFRICA MINISTRIES INCCOLLIN CREEK ASSISTED LIVING CENTER INC — $60,000 · OtherCOLLIN CREEK ASSISTED …DELTA TAU DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherDELTA TAU DELTA EDUCAT…KIDS MATTER — $20,000 · OtherKIDS MATTERUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LA…SENT CHURCH — $12,500 · OtherDAY SPRING SENIOR LIVING — $11,000 · OtherTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $11,000 · OtherPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDAITON CO JOHN STROUT — $10,000 · OtherBLUEPRINT COMMUNITY CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherTHE STEPPING STONES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherWEST DALLAS SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $15,000 · OtherFEED MY STARVING CHILD…+4 more — $20,000 · Other+4 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOU…Leadership Institute — $60,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Insti…JUDICIAL WATCH INC — $60,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH I…MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $90,000 · Arts & CultureConservative Partnership Institute — $20,000 · EducationINGRAM WARRIOR HOMES INC — $15,000 · EducationLAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO — $2,000 · EducationDALLASFORT WORTH LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE CLUB INC — $31,000 · AnimalsOPERATION KINDNESS — $5,000 · AnimalsHUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Religion$663,500Other$254,500Public Benefit$185,000Arts & Culture$90,000Education$37,000Animals$36,000Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMobilize the Church — $580,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVISION AFRICA MINISTRIES INC — $83,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALLASFORT WORTH LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE CLUB INC — $31,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINGRAM WARRIOR HOMES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $11,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE STEPPING STONES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Earlane & Sam Croom 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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