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The Crowe Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$137kReligion$117kHealth$97kHuman Services$65kPhilanthropy$60kFood & Nutrition$32kEnvironment$20kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
$170
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$40,600
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$7,500
LINLY HEFLIN UNIT$5,300
UNITED ABILITY$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$5,000
EASTER SEALS OF THE BIRMINGHAM AREA$3,000
ASCENCION ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION$2,900
THE DANCE FOUNDATION$750
MOUNTAIN BROOK COMMUNITY CHURCH$200
LAKE MARTIN RESOURCE ASSOCIATION$200
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT$170
NORMA LIVINGSTON OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION$150
SAFE HARBOR BOYS HOME$150
MEALS ON WHEELS$150
ST FRANCIS XAVIER$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $50 → 16%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 18%BIG OAK RANCH: $175 → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 18%KING'S HOME: $2k → 7%BIG OAK RANCH: $150 → 13%KING'S HOME: $1k → 7%KING'S HOME: $1k → 7%KING'S HOME: $1k → 7%KING'S HOME: $1k → 7%KING'S HOME: $450 → 7%THE KINGS HOME: $175 → 7%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $1k → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$472k · 34 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
59

Total granted

$472k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
0%

Still filing today

44%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Samford University
    4× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +236%
  • BO
    BIG OAK RANCH INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +33%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BIRMINIGHAM
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BM
    BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
4
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
5
Lymphoma Research Foundation

To eradicate lymphoma and serve those touched by this disease.

Health
6
The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health
7
National Brain Tumor Society Inc

National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.

8
Baptist Health System Foundation Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Baptist Health System Inc

"as a witness to the love of god, revealed through jesus christ, the baptist health system is committed to ministries that enhance the health, dignity, and wholeness of those we serve, through integrity, compassion, advocacy,…

Health
11
Baptist Health System Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

Health
12
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUnited Way FederationsCancer Support OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Land Conservation Organizat…Child and Family ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionSenior Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsVeteran Support ServicesYouth Sports Booster Organi…Community Health CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr17%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr17%61%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
14%
3,157/22,738

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.

04the grantee network

37 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 107 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
19/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT — $99,680 · OtherCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENTSALVATION ARMY — $43,050 · OtherSALVATION ARMYFRIENDS OF THE BOTANTICAL GARDEN — $32,100 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE BOTANTICAL GARDENBIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS — $18,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENSTHOU ART EXALTED MINISTRIES — $15,250 · OtherHOLY FAMILY CHRISTO REY SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $10,700 · Other+72 more — $72,852 · Other+72 moreLINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC — $56,700 · EducationLINLY HEFLIN UNIT INCSamford University — $50,400 · EducationSamford University+4 more — $3,600 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $43,100 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …American Heart Association Inc — $14,750 · HealthAmerican Heart A…CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $13,200 · HealthCHILDREN'S HARBO…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DUNITED ABILITY INC — $5,000 · HealthUNITED ABILITY I…+7 more — $4,500 · HealthUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyBIG OAK RANCH INC — $8,325 · Human ServicesKings Home Inc — $7,250 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC — $2,250 · Human Services+1 more — $50 · Human ServicesJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $14,550 · Community ImprovementSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $7,500 · Religion+2 more — $200 · Religion
Other$306,632Education$110,700Health$85,550Philanthropy$51,000Human Services$17,875Community Improvement$14,550Religion$7,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC — $56,700 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSamford University — $50,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $43,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $14,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC — $14,550 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $13,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $8,325 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKings Home Inc — $7,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK — $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ABILITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE MARTIN RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC — $765 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM — $555 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN PAW INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOLLES SCHOOL — $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Norma Livingston Ovarian Cancer Foundation Inc — $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP WINNATASKA — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC
  • Who funds Samford University
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC
  • Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds Kings Home Inc
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK
  • Who funds GREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D
  • Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC
  • Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
  • Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB
  • Who funds SAVE PONTE VEDRA BEACH INC
  • Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION 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.

The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL39.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Hackney Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer 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 Crowe 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 107 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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