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JF Crow Family 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.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Religion$72kYouth Development$8kCivil Rights$3kEducation$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCrime & Legal$1kCommunity Improvement$1kRecreation & Sports$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Well Ministries$16,500
Lifewise$5,000
American Center for Law & Justice$2,600
Hillsdale College$2,100
Dutch Sheets Ministry$2,000
Rehoboth Ministries$1,000
Walk on Water Faith Church$500
The Leadership Institute$100
Stand in the Gap$100
Answers in Genesis$100
The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc$100
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Alliance Defending Freedom: $500 → 11%Life Outreach International: $2k → 11%Dutch Sheets Ministry: $2k → 11%Hillsdale College: $2k → 14%Walk on Water Faith Church: $500 → 13%The Well Ministries: $26k → 10%Lifewise: $5k → 14%LifeWise: $3k → 15%The Leadership Institute: $100 → 7%Answers in Genesis: $3k → 7%The Well Ministries: $17k → 10%Frazeysburg Revitalization Association: $1k → 14%Answers in Genesis: $100 → 7%Rehoboth Ministries: $1k → 14%Village of Frazeysburg Pool: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$56k · 5 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$56k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+18%

Still filing today

60%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
ReligionYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TW
    THE WELL MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $42k
  • LI
    LIFEWISE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +184%
  • AC
    American Center for Law & Justice
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k

Funded once

  • CB
    Charis Bible College Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • JJ
    Jewish Jewels Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +42%
  • LO
    LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

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
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Biblica Inc

To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.

Religion
4
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
5
Good News Publishers

Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…

6
Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
7
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

8
Lakelight Institute

Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.

Religion
9
Discover the Book Ministries Inc

The purpose of Discover the Book Ministries is evangelization and discipleship through various means consistent with the Holy Scriptures to help build and strengthen the Church of Jesus Christ. Our ministries include online resources,…

Religion
10
Ambassador Baptist College

Degreed courses offered to men and women in training and preparation to enter the ministry of preaching and teaching the Gospel.

Education
11
Institute of Chinese Studies

ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally

International
12
Jerusalem University College

Jerusalem University College creates opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge of God and His Word through immersive study of the ancient and modern contexts of Israel and the surrounding regions, equipping them for academia,…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Answers in Genesis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WELL MINISTRIES INC — $42,000 · OtherTHE WELL MINISTRIES INCAmerican Center for Law & Justice — $3,650 · OtherAmerican Center for Law & JusticeDutch Sheets Ministry — $2,000 · Other+7 more — $6,050 · Other+7 moreCharis Bible College Inc — $20,050 · ReligionCharis Bible College IncANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $2,600 · ReligionANSWERS IN GENESIS INCJewish Jewels Inc — $2,000 · ReligionJewish Jewels Inc+1 more — $350 · ReligionLIFEWISE INC — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIFEWISE …HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $2,100 · EducationALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $500 · Civil RightsStand in the Gap Foundation — $100 · Crime & LegalLeadership Institute — $100 · Public Benefit
Other$53,700Religion$25,000Youth Development$7,500Education$2,100Civil Rights$500Crime & Legal$100Public Benefit$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCharis Bible College Inc — $20,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEWISE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Jewels Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 IncCA5.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 JF Crow Family 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to JF Crow Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to JF Crow Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 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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