· Private foundation
Larry and Elizabeth Crawford 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Unitarian Universalist Fellowship | $4,000 |
| San Juan Symphony | $4,000 |
| Durango Food Bank | $4,000 |
| Volunteers of America CO Branch | $3,000 |
| United Way of SW Colorado | $3,000 |
| With Arms Open Wide NYPD | $2,500 |
| Ft Lewis College Fdn scholarship fd | $2,000 |
| Music in the Mountains | $2,000 |
| Manna Soup Kitchen | $2,000 |
| Rod Ems Memorial Scholarship Fund | $1,500 |
| Durango Choral Society | $1,500 |
| James Ranch Homestead School | $1,500 |
| Sullivan Foundation for the Arts | $1,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $1,000 |
| Southwest Civic Winds | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SJSAN JUAN SYMPHONY5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +99%
- MTMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +210%
- MIMusic in the Mountains Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +296%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $8k
- UUUnitarian Universalist Fellowship oone grant, 2020 · $4k
- HSHousing Solutions of SW COone grant, 2020 · $4k
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 Durango Arts Center ("DAC") enriches the community through innovative visual and performing art, and arts education. DAC advances appreciation and participation in the arts as a cultural leader in the region.
The Durango Chamber of Commerce is a membership based organization that promotes and supports the local business economy.
To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.
Lake dillon foundation for the performing arts dba theatre silco is a professional theatre committed to enhancing the quality of life in summit county and the colorado front range by providing unique and accessible cultural experiences…
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
Durango Independent Film Festival (DIFF) brings independent films and filmmakers to the 4 Corners via both an annual international festival and a film commission office that facilitates storytelling production throughout our region. DIFF…
The foundation is a state-based philanthropic foundation - led by latinos and for latinos. the foundation pursues civic, economic, and cultural opportunities that drive a more authentic narrative about latinos in the state and cement a…
Rooted in the living transmission of Theravada Buddhism, the purpose of the Durango Dharma Center is personal and collective liberation. We practice together to cultivate awakened minds and compassionate hearts. Building a culture of…
Nurturing child development in partnership with families of diverse backgrounds.
Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.
Dolores River Boating Advocates protects and enriches the recreational and ecological values of the Dolores River through advocacy, stewardship and education.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Plata Family Centers Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Annies Orphans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 52 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 DURANGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAN JUAN SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Music in the Mountains Inc ↗
- Who funds DURANGO CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds DURANGO ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAS ALANO CLUB ↗
- Who funds Womens Resource Center in Durango ↗
- Who funds ANNIES ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Durango Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds LA PLATA COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LA PLATA FAMILY CENTERS COALITION ↗
- Who funds MERELY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Thoren Family Charitable Trust · Community Foundation Serving Southwest Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · Ballantine Family Fund · Team Up · Westmeath Foundation · The Erteszek Foundation · The Moniker Foundation · Mountain Spirit Foundation · La Plata Electric Association Inc · The Sam S Bloom 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 Larry and Elizabeth Crawford 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.
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.