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Terry & Kelly Crofoot 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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5.9M
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$5.9MHealth$494kReligion$220kHuman Services$164kEducation$143kArts & Culture$55kRecreation & Sports$51kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.9M
$4,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$880
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROFOOT FAMILY FOUNDATION$5,931,066
FACES$25,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$9,500
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER (TTUHSC)$7,000
REFUGE SERVICES INC$6,250
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATION$4,500
IDALOU EDUCATION FOUNDATION$3,750
MALTA FARMS$1,500
RANCHING HERITAGE ASSOCIATION$1,200
TEXAS BOYS RANCH$1,150
FAITH TRUST CENTER$200
LUBBOCK COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION$200
LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $3k → 10%NYU LANGONE HEALTH: $50k → 17%MISSION K9 RESCUE: $1k → 8%STABLE - SPIRIT: $3k → 14%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $200 → 15%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $7k → 16%IDALOU EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 21%MATADOR CLUB: $500 → 8%KSU GOLF: $50k → 20%FRIENDS OF FACES: $50k → 6%FACES GALA: $50k → 17%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $5k → 16%IDALOU EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55k → 20%SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $5k → 16%LUBBOCK COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $200 → 17%KSU AHEARN FUND: $45k → 20%GREAT EPILEPSY STEAKOUT: $2k → 16%YWCA OF LUBBOCK: $3k → 17%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $2k → 16%MALTA FARMS: $2k → 17%BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%MALTA FARMS: $2k → 17%FACES: $50k → 16%MALTA FARMS: $500 → 17%SCIENCE SPECTRUM: $10k → 17%THE COVENANT FOUNDATION: $101k → 17%THE COVENANT FOUNDATION: $70k → 17%COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $16k → 17%COVENANT FOUNDATION: $12k → 17%COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%COVENANT FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $1k → 17%JOE ELY - COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%FAITH TRUST CENTER: $200 → 17%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.

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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$997k · 15 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$997k
$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
-16%

Still filing today

67%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $270k · revenue +505%
  • CF
    COVENANT FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $192k · revenue ×33 · 73% of their budget
  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FACES
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -82%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

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
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
2
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
4
North Central Texas Medical Foundation
Health
5
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
6
Texas Veterinary Medical Foundation

The texas veterinary medical foundation is committed to supporting the veterinary profession and our communities in texas by providing resources, education, and programs for the responsible stewardship of animals.

Animals
7
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
8
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
9
Lubbock Christian University Foundation

Raising funds to support the activities of lubbock christian university and to fund capital projects for instructional facilities for lubbock christian university.

Education
10
Texas a&M University-Central Tx Foundati

Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).

Education
11
Lone Star Foundation
12
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crofoot Family Foundation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 37 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
7/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROFOOT FAMILY FOUNDATION — $5,931,066 · PhilanthropyCROFOOT FAMILY FOUNDATION+2 more — $193,410 · PhilanthropySOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $270,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $56,425 · Education+2 more — $8,950 · EducationFACES — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTH — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherKSU AHEARN FUND — $47,500 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS — $18,500 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER (TTUHSC) — $13,500 · Other+13 more — $33,950 · OtherREFUGE SERVICES INC — $161,250 · Human ServicesTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH — $27,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF FACES — $50,000 · HealthCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $31,550 · HealthStable-Spirit — $3,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthSCIENCE SPECTRUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMALTA FARMS INC — $3,500 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$6,124,476Education$410,375Other$338,450Human Services$188,250Health$87,050Arts & Culture$11,000Crime & Legal$3,500

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 budgetCROFOOT FAMILY FOUNDATION — $5,931,066 over 1y, 96% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $270,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT FOUNDATION INC — $192,410 over 4y, 73% of budgetREFUGE SERVICES INC — $161,250 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $56,425 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FACES — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $31,550 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH — $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE SPECTRUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRanching Heritage Association — $9,450 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIDALOU EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,750 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMALTA FARMS INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetStable-Spirit — $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission K9 Rescue Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $200 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.

Crofoot Family FoundationTX22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crofoot Family Foundation · Ch Foundation Inc · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · C and a McDonald Family Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Community Foundation of West Texas · Texas Instruments Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · The Cash Family Foundation · Rc Johnson Jr Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · HDS 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 Terry & Kelly Crofoot 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Terry & Kelly Crofoot Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Terry & Kelly Crofoot 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 37 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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