· Private foundation
The Crawford Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH | $40,000 |
| WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TEAM EXPANSION MINISTRIES INC | $10,000 |
| LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $9,000 |
| WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES INC | $6,000 |
| ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC | $5,200 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC | $3,000 |
| TRUE THE VOTE INC | $2,500 |
| PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH INC | $2,000 |
| AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN | $2,000 |
| KIDS CLUB CONSULTANTS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +64% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k 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
- GMGLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +24%
Mercy Ships International5× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +170%- CMCITYTEAM MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- OIOMF INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BIBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +141%
- RDRURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is X Boys Preparatory School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 72 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 WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MEDIA OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds TRUE THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS FACTOR ↗
- Who funds Agape International Missions ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CLUB CONSULTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
- Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Eric Javits Family 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 Crawford Family 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.
- Rural Development Corporation Inc — 46% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% 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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