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The Crain Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 145
- Grants FY2024
- 136
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $760,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 136 to 151
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Crain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 143 | $2.7M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 136 | $1.8M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 146 | $2.0M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 150 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 151 | $2.1M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 143 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 151 | $2.4M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 139 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Episcopal High School | $3,018,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Trustees of the Lawrenceville School | $975,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rhodes College | $935,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Longview Museum of Fine Arts | $888,350 | 7 | 29% |
| Camp For All Foundation | $575,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Washington and Lee University | $570,000 | 8 | 0% |
| St Lukes United Methodist Church | $400,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Buckner International | $366,800 | 8 | 1% |
| St John's School | $353,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Christian Community Service Center Inc | $317,500 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 166 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Crain Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 139 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: Rosa May Griffin Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Wece B and Martha a Johnson Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc
How this is measured
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About The Crain Foundation
- How much does The Crain Foundation give?
- The Crain Foundation reported 145 grants totaling $2,664,848 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 136 and 151 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Crain Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Crain Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Episcopal High School ($3.0M), Trustees of the Lawrenceville School ($975k), Rhodes College ($935k).
- Does The Crain Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Crain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Crain Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rosa May Griffin Foundation, East Texas Communities Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is The Crain Foundation based?
- The Crain Foundation is based in TX.
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