Florida · Private foundation
McCrea Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $340k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations McCrea Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $340k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $384k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $389k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $360k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $340k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $320k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $301k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $428,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $131,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $115,250 | 7 | 0% |
| St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Proctor Academy | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School of Houston Inc | $51,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Boca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bo's Place | $48,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rx Art Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($555k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McCrea Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · McDowell Foundation · Vick Foundation Inc · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600
How this is measured
About McCrea Foundation
- How much does McCrea Foundation give?
- McCrea Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $340,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does McCrea Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Animals (24%), Environment (10%).
- Who are McCrea Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Houston Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($428k), Trout Unlimited Inc ($131k), Texas Children's Hospital ($115k).
- Does McCrea Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McCrea Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McCrea Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is McCrea Foundation based?
- McCrea Foundation is based in FL.
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