How much does The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation give?

The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,693,045 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Arts & Culture (25%), Human Services (3%).

Who are The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Southern Maine Foundation ($3.9M), Maine College of Art and Design ($2.2M), Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ($444k).

Does The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation, Davis Family Foundation.

Where is The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation based?

The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation is based in ME.

The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation

The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.2MArts & Culture$2.4MHuman Services$274kCivil Rights$242kFood & Nutrition$165kHealth$160kRecreation & Sports$75kPhilanthropy$71kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $28k
$10k–50k10 grants · $200k
$50k–250k5 grants · $308k
$250k+3 grants · $1.2M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
PALAVER STRINGS	$50,000
317 MAIN COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER	$50,000
MITCHELL INSTITUTE	$50,000
OUT MAINE	$25,000
BREAKWATER LEARNING	$25,000
FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL	$25,000
PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$25,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART	$25,000
EQUALITY MAINE	$25,000
317 MAIN COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.4M · 51 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.4M

$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+35%

Still filing today

80%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MC
MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +69%
SG
Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute
9× · 2017–2025 · $444k · revenue +26%
Portland Museum of Art
7× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +33%

Funded once

HI
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -11%
MB
MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -75%
OP
OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +303%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Maine Media College

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…

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Maine Arts Academy

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…

Education

Maine Film Center

To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.

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Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

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…

Arts & Culture

Portland Public Library

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…

Education

Maine Jewish Film Festival

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…

Arts & Culture

Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

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.

Human Services

Maine Philanthropy Center

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…

Education

Maine Climate Action Now

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…

Environment

One Longfellow Square

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.

Arts & Culture

Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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Maine Donor Alliance Fund

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,…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Stage Company; 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.

04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/67

Grantees still filing

45/67

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$3,990,359Education$2,959,463Arts & Culture$1,360,141Other$1,147,924Food & Nutrition$140,350Health$78,150Recreation & Sports$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME85.9× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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