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McCRUM FUND INC

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.

$95k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
57%
First-time grantees FY2020
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87% of McCRUM FUND INC’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Park County Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year McCRUM FUND INC named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $95k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
3
’18
1
’19
5
’20
3
’21
3
’22
2
’23
1
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 57% of the organizations McCRUM FUND INC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY20207$79k57%
FY20193$17k33%
FY20186$31k50%
FY20176$202kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$522kHealth$208kArts & Culture$60kEnvironment$50kFood & Nutrition$38kInternational$23kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of McCRUM FUND INC by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts$60,00024%
Tall Timbers Research Inc$25,00010%
Friends of Park County$25,000113%
No Barriers USA$20,00020%
Livingston Food Pantry of Park County$13,00040%
Bozeman Deaconess Foundation$12,00030%
Livingston Healthcare Foundation$10,00011%
Bring Change 2 Mind$10,00010%
The New Canaan Country School Incorporated$5,00010%
Global Midwife Education Foundation$3,00031%
Aspen-Abuse Support & Prevention Education Network$1,50020%
Community Health Partners Inc$1,00010%
St Andrews Episcopal Church$1,0001n/a
UTEC Inc$1,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($265k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McCRUM FUND INC supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Shane Lalani Center for the Arts: $60,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTall Timbers Research Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Park County: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNo Barriers USA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLivingston Food Pantry of Park County: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBozeman Deaconess Foundation: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLivingston Healthcare Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBring Change 2 Mind: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe New Canaan Country School Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Midwife Education Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAspen-Abuse Support & Prevention Education Network: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Health Partners Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTEC Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 13.

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.

Park County Community FoundationMT22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Park County Community Foundation · The Stake Foundation · Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Dovana Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · Charlotte & Edward K Wheeler Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · Glassybaby Foundation · Town Pump Charitable 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 McCRUM FUND INC

How much does McCRUM FUND INC give?
McCRUM FUND INC reported 8 grants totaling $95,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does McCRUM FUND INC fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Health (22%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are McCRUM FUND INC's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Shane Lalani Center for the Arts ($60k), Tall Timbers Research Inc ($25k), Friends of Park County ($25k).
Does McCRUM FUND INC fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McCRUM FUND INC 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 McCRUM FUND INC?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Park County Community Foundation, The Stake Foundation, Solid Rock Foundation Co Rosamond Stanton.
Where is McCRUM FUND INC based?
McCRUM FUND INC is based in MT.

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 22 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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