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The Crowe 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$137kReligion$117kHealth$97kHuman Services$65kPhilanthropy$60kFood & Nutrition$32kEnvironment$20kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$20,000
OLE MISS CHAPTER OF NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$10,000
LINLY HEFLIN UNIT$5,150
CCB EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION$5,000
CHILDREN'S ART GUILD INITIATIVE$1,000
ST BERNARD PERPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
KING'S HOME$1,000
CHILDREN'S HARBOR$1,000
ST BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
HADASSAH'S HOPE$500
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES IN ALABAMA (NSCDA)$215
ROOTED MINISTRY - RICHARD E SIMMONS III$200
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT$200
ANNISTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$100
INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$100
02The need
03

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, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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: $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
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

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$500k · 35 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
71

Total granted

$500k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
0%

Still filing today

43%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Samford University
    4× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +60%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · 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
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
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.

1
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
2
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
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
Prisma Health

Inspire health. serve with compassion. be the difference.

Health
5
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
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
Lymphoma Research Foundation

To eradicate lymphoma and serve those touched by this disease.

Health
8
Baptist Health Ambulatory Services Inc

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

Health
9
Baptist Medical Center of the Beaches Inc

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

Health
10
Baptist Health System Foundation Inc

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

—
11
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.

—
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 115 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
19/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT: $99,880 · 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 · Other+80 more: $102,217 · Other+80 moreLINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC: $61,850 · EducationLINLY HEFLIN UNIT IN…Samford University: $50,400 · EducationSamford University+4 more: $3,600 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $63,100 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SO…American Heart Association Inc: $14,750 · HealthAmerican Heart Ass…CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $14,200 · HealthCHILDREN'S HARBOR …UNITED ABILITY INC: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 · Health+7 more: $4,500 · HealthUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyBIG OAK RANCH INC: $8,325 · Human ServicesKings Home Inc: $8,250 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC: $2,250 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $14,650 · Community ImprovementSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,500 · Religion+2 more: $200 · Religion
Other$325,497Education$115,850Health$106,550Philanthropy$51,500Human Services$18,875Community Improvement$14,650Religion$7,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $63,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC: $61,850 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetSamford University: $50,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $14,650 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $14,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $8,325 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKings Home Inc: $8,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $7,500 over 1y, 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 budgetUNITED ABILITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $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 budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRMINGHAM SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE MARTIN RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC: $765 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET GUILD OF BIRMINGHAM: $605 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHADASSAH S HOPE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetThe Norma Livingston Ovarian Cancer Foundation Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP WINNATASKA: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $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
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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC ↗
  • Who funds Samford University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • 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 Kings Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE PONTE VEDRA BEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Debardeleben Foundati…Hill Crest Foundation…Protective Life Found…Altecstyslinger Found…Dunn-French FoundationAlabama Power Foundat…The Hackney FoundationSusan Mott Webb Chari…Pete M Hanna Charitab…Robert R Meyer Founda…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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