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Harlan R Crow Foundation Inc

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.

$575k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$2.4MSocial Science$425kArts & Culture$117kEducation$100kInternational$25k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$175,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH$250,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE INC$175,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$100,000
NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY$50,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%Dallas Memorial for the Fallen Police Officers Inc: $10k → 5%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY: $50k → 14%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%HUDSON INSTITUTE INC: $175k → 14%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $250k → 14%Southwestern Medical Foundation: $600k → 14%World Affairs Council of DallasFort Worth: $25k → 14%THE TRAMMELL & MARGARET CROW FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Texas International Theatrical Arts Society: $8k → 14%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 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
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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3
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Berggruen Institute
Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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8
Rodel Institute

The rodel institute is a nonpartisan center for leadership and intellectual growth. rodel helps america's most promising leaders reach their full potential as public servants, deepen their commitment to democracy and the rule of law,…

Philanthropy
9
Wt Stanford Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
11
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
12
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth; the most unlike its peers is The Trammell & Margaret Crow 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

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,400,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATIONTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $250,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN …Hudson Institute Inc: $175,000 · OtherTHE TRAMMELL & MARGARET CROW FOUNDATION: $49,694 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherNATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS MEMORIAL FOR THE FALLEN POLICE OFFICERS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH: $25,000 · International
Education$2,500,000Social Science$250,000Other$232,194Arts & Culture$60,000International$25,000

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 budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,400,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $175,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE TRAMMELL & MARGARET CROW FOUNDATION: $49,694 over 1y, 29% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDALLAS MEMORIAL FOR THE FALLEN POLICE OFFICERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTEXAS INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL ARTS SOCIETY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Harlan R Crow Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harlan R Crow Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Harlan R Crow Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Harlan R Crow Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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