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The Crowell Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Crowell Family Foundation Inc

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.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$330kHuman Services$122kCrime & Legal$101kHealth$81kRecreation & Sports$60kArts & Culture$45kFood & Nutrition$38kReligion$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHLAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$33,250
CAMPLIFY OBO CAMP GLEN ARDEN$16,900
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$13,250
STOKED ON LIFE PALM BEACH CORP$10,000
ST MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC SPECIAL SCHOOL$5,000
SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$5,000
PROJECT LAZARUS$4,100
BOUNTY AND SOUL$3,500
FRIENDS OF THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CAMP KESEM: $25k → 14%CATERPILLAR MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%CATERPILLAR MINISTRIES: $14k → 10%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

WA
CA
VA
NC
SC
LA
AL
GA
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$652k · 15 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
27

Total granted

$652k
$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+46%

Still filing today

40%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AS
    ANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +25%
  • CM
    Caterpillar Ministries
    2× · 2022–2023 · $34k · revenue +63%
  • CA
    Court Appointed Special Advocates
    2× · 2020–2021 · $19k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • SL
    SOUTH LAKE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $46k
  • TL
    THE LITTLE WORKERS OF THE SACRED HEART
    one grant, 2021 · $28k
  • CK
    Camp Kesem National
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +22%
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
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
2
Cancer Association of Greater New Orlean

To fight cancer through research, education, and service to patience and their families.

Health
3
Philanthropy Southeast Inc

Philanthropy Southeast strengthens Southern philanthropy, welcoming our members to listen, learn and collaborate on ideas and actions to help build an equitable, prosperous South.

Philanthropy
4
North Carolina Aids Action Network

The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…

Health
5
CleanAIRE Nc

To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.

Environment
6
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
7
Carolina Small Business Development Fund

Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.

Public Benefit
8
Central Louisiana Aids Support Service

To provide community awareness and assistance for aids victims.

Health
9
Deep South Today

Deep south today is a nonprofit network of local newsrooms comprising mississippi today and verite news. with its regional scale and scope, deep south today is providing critical journalism in underserved areas and ensuring its long-term…

Arts & Culture
10
Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico

The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.

Philanthropy
11
Feeding the Carolinas

The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cornelius Arts Community Center Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHLAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $126,750 · OtherSOUTHLAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCCAMPLIFY OBO CAMP GLEN ARDEN: $76,650 · OtherCAMPLIFY OBO CAMP GLEN ARDENST MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC SPECIAL SCHOOL: $74,500 · OtherST MICHAEL'S CATHOLIC SPECIAL SCHOOLTHE WOMEN'S PRISON PROJECT: $67,250 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S PRISON PROJECTSOUTH LAKE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $46,000 · OtherSOUTH LAKE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLJESSIE'S PLACE: $45,750 · OtherJESSIE'S PLACEIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherTHE LITTLE WORKERS OF THE SACRED HEART: $28,000 · OtherST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SPECIAL SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA (CRYSTAL COOPER ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP): $25,000 · OtherCHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC HIGH SCH: $25,000 · Other+24 more: $172,300 · Other+24 moreAIDS ALABAMA INC: $45,000 · HealthAIDS ALAB…Stoked on Life Palm Beach Corp: $35,000 · HealthStoked on…PROJECT LAZARUS: $4,100 · Health+1 more: $750 · HealthCaterpillar Ministries: $33,750 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National: $25,000 · Human ServicesCORNELIUS ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRoots of Music Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionBounty & Soul: $3,500 · Food & NutritionCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13,250 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8,000 · EducationCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $19,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$742,200Health$84,850Human Services$58,750Arts & Culture$45,000Food & Nutrition$38,500Education$21,250Crime & Legal$19,000

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 budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetStoked on Life Palm Beach Corp: $35,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCaterpillar Ministries: $33,750 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORNELIUS ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $19,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPatriot Military Family Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST RESCUE AND RELIEF LLC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPROJECT LAZARUS: $4,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CRUSADERS INC: $750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PENINSULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 AIDS ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Stoked on Life Palm Beach Corp ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Caterpillar Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
  • Who funds CORNELIUS ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Patriot Military Family Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST RESCUE AND RELIEF LLC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LAZARUS ↗

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The Huisking Foundati…Shell USA Company Fou…The Bank of America C…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Huisking Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–50%
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 Crowell Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Crowell Family Foundation Inc 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.

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 49 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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