· Private foundation
The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $308k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE FOUNDATION | $358,000 |
| MAINE COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $300,000 |
| MAINE PUBLIC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE FOUNDATION | $57,545 |
| MITCHELL INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| 317 MAIN COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER | $50,000 |
| PALAVER STRINGS | $50,000 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| EQUALITY MAINE | $25,000 |
| FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL | $25,000 |
| OUT MAINE | $25,000 |
| BREAKWATER LEARNING | $25,000 |
| 317 MAIN COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- MCMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +69%
- SGSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $444k · revenue +26%
Portland Museum of Art7× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- HIHand in Hand Mano en Manoone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -11%
- MBMAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCAREone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -75%
- OPOGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +303%
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.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
The Maine Jewish Film Festival celebrates filmmakinginspiring conversation through the lens of global Jewish experience. Innovative programming invites a diverse statewide audience into the dialogue. Many of our programs include guest…
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
The Maine Philanthropy Center (MPC) is the state's leading resource that provides opportunity, leadership and support to advance the effectiveness of philanthropy in Maine and its ability to make a meaningful difference. It helps grant…
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
To engage our community in the shared experience of a broad range of exceptional live music and support musicians at all stages of their artistic journey.
To promote and ensure workers' rights
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Stage Company and the most unlike its peers is Illustration Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 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. 67 of the 100 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 University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKWATER LEARNING ↗
- Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds Family Ice Center ↗
- Who funds OUT Maine ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds SPACE Gallery ↗
- Who funds OPERA MAINE ↗
- Who funds EqualityMaine ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE PORTLAND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Mano en Mano ↗
- Who funds MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPEAK ABOUT IT ↗
- Who funds SEA CHANGE YOGA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds FRANNIE PEABODY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF CARING ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Watermans Community Center ↗
- Who funds BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 240 STRINGS ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Libra Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Lunder Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable 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 The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe 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.
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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