· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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
- MTMobilize the Church5× · 2020–2024 · $580k · revenue +32% · 33% of their budget
- VAVISION AFRICA MINISTRIES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +46%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- DTDELTA TAU DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- HPHUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +379% · 48% of their budget
- BCBLUEPRINT COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
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.
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,…
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.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 Mobilize the Church ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds VISION AFRICA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds DALLASFORT WORTH LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds HUNT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds INGRAM WARRIOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE STEPPING STONES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds LAMAR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIO ↗
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: 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.
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.