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Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
35
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
53%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$17,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 34
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$23M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving35$1.0M23%
FY202434$847k53%
FY202316$476k13%
FY202217$451k35%
FY202113$400k85%
FY20205$98kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.1MHuman Services$688kArts & Culture$184kYouth Development$149kAnimals$80kHousing & Shelter$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kReligion$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian Service Center Inc$405,500674%
University of Mobile$260,00050%
Auburn University Foundation$200,00050%
University of Montevallo Foundation$200,00051%
Spring Hill College$185,00040%
University of South Alabama$180,0005n/a
Troy University Foundation$120,00030%
Samford University$120,00030%
Mobile Symphony Inc$101,50042%
Vanderbilt University$100,00020%
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All grantees of Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christian Service Center Inc$405,500674%
University of Mobile$260,00050%
Auburn University Foundation$200,00050%
University of Montevallo Foundation$200,00051%
Spring Hill College$185,00040%
University of South Alabama$180,0005n/a
Troy University Foundation$120,00030%
Samford University$120,00030%
Mobile Symphony Inc$101,50042%
Vanderbilt University$100,00020%
Jennifer Claire Moore Foundation$79,00044%
South Baldwin Literacy Council$72,00045%
Under His Wings Inc$45,00026%
Eastern Shore Repertory Theatre In$40,00023%
Jensens Heart of Gold Foundation$27,500211%
Baldwin County Angels Inc$25,0002n/a
The Lighthouse$25,0002n/a
Prodisee Pantry Inc$25,00021%
Baldwin County Education Coalition$25,00016%
Straylove Foundation Inc$20,000211%
Children of the World Inc$15,00015%
Fostering Together Gulf Coast$15,00016%
Meows and Mutts Rescue$15,0001n/a
South Baldwin Community Theatre$15,00018%
Baldwin County Youth Orchestra$12,50035%
Coastal Baldwin Educational Enrichment Foundation Inc$10,50046%
Mobile County Humane Society Inc dba Krewe de Rescue$10,000112%
Youth Reach Gulf Coast Inc$10,00012%
Scottsboro-Jackson Heritage Center$10,00015%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($946k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristian Service Center Inc: $405,500 over 6y, 74% of budgetUniversity of Mobile: $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Montevallo Foundation: $200,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSpring Hill College: $185,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTroy University Foundation: $120,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSamford University: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMobile Symphony Inc: $101,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetVanderbilt University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJennifer Claire Moore Foundation: $79,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetSouth Baldwin Literacy Council: $72,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetUnder His Wings Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetEastern Shore Repertory Theatre In: $40,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetJensens Heart of Gold Foundation: $27,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetProdisee Pantry Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBaldwin County Education Coalition: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetStraylove Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetChildren of the World Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFostering Together Gulf Coast: $15,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSouth Baldwin Community Theatre: $15,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetBaldwin County Youth Orchestra: $12,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCoastal Baldwin Educational Enrichment Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetMobile County Humane Society Inc dba Krewe de Rescue: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYouth Reach Gulf Coast Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetScottsboro-Jackson Heritage Center: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

The Joseph Treadwell Charitable FdnMS20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn · Impact 100 Baldwin County · Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Inc · Snook Foundation · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Rc Craft Family Foundation · Cox Family Charitable Foundation · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · Mapp Family Foundation · Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Fund Inc · H G Clay Foundation

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.

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About Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust

How much does Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust give?
Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust reported 35 grants totaling $1,044,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Human Services (21%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Christian Service Center Inc ($406k), University of Mobile ($260k), Auburn University Foundation ($200k).
Does Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joseph Treadwell Charitable Fdn, Impact 100 Baldwin County, Baldwin County Electric Membership Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust based?
Joe and Mary Ann Cromeans Charitable Foundation Trust is based in AL.

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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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