How much does The Crow Foundation give?

The Crow Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $208,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Crow Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (17%), Education (10%).

Who are The Crow Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shreveport Scottish Rite Foundation Inc ($75k), United Way of Northwest Louisiana ($70k), United Way of Clallam County ($60k).

Does The Crow Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Crow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as The Crow Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Louisiana, Grayson Foundation Inc, Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation.

Where is The Crow Foundation based?

The Crow Foundation is based in LA.

The Crow Foundation

The Crow Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Crow Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$208k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$505kHealth$290kEducation$174kReligion$165kPhilanthropy$130kAnimals$97kArts & Culture$81kHousing & Shelter$77kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k35 grants · $123k
$10k–50k6 grants · $85k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CENTENARY COLLEGE - GSC ENDOWED	$20,000
PENINSULA HOME FUND	$20,000
FIRST STEP FAMILY SUPPORT	$15,000
UNITED WAY OF CLALLAM COUNTY	$10,000
COMMON GROUND COMMUNITY INC	$10,000
SHREVEPORT SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION	$10,000
ROBINSON'S RESCUE	$5,000
CARITAS OF AUSTIN	$5,000
GINGERBREAD HOUSE	$5,000
CHRISTUS FOUNDATION - SHREVEPORTBOSSIER	$5,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA	$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARLESTON	$5,000
FAITH AND FOSTERING	$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE	$5,000
MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES	$5,000

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 (FY17–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.

$1.7M · 58 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 21 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

$1.7M

$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+28%

Still filing today

60%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

SS
Shreveport Scottish Rite Foundation Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +358% · 41% of their budget
CC
CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING
9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +69%
OP
OLYMPIC PENINSULA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN
9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +121%

Funded once

FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +6%
HC
HOPE CONNECTIONS INC
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +14%
MD
M D ANDERSON CANCER CLINIC
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

Desoto Hospital Association Inc Dba Desoto Regional Health System

34 bed hospital located in a medically underserved parish in northwest louisiana. includes three rural health clinics,24 hour emergency services, industrial medicine clinic, and wellness/therapy center.

Health

Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank

Our mission is to feed the hungry in baton rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.

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Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.

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Baptist Community Health Services Inc

Motivated by the love and compassion of christ and in keeping with our baptist heritage, bchs provides quality primary healthcare and behavioral healthcare to individuals in medically underserved communities.

Health

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…

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Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.

—

Southern Indiana Community Health Care

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…

Health

The Food Bank of Central Louisiana

To alleviate hunger in central louisiana

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Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy

Acadiana Outreach Center Inc

Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.

Religion

NeighborHealth Center Inc

Serving christ by loving our neighbors through the practice of excellent, compassionate, and accessible healthcare.

Health

Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Connections Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

41 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. 41 of the 70 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)

41/41

Grantees still filing

28/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,111,500Human Services$155,500Arts & Culture$155,000Health$100,000Animals$97,000Philanthropy$60,000Food & Nutrition$36,000

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.

Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA50.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Grayson Foundation Inc · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · J B Atkins Foundation · Anita Mary Tippings Steinau Foundat · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Poindexter Foundation Inc · Zadeck Family Foundation · United Way of Northwest Louisiana · Willis-Knighton Medical Center

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 Crow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Crow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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How do I get to The Crow Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Crow 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home