· Private foundation
The Crowther 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Ensworth School | $17,500 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $10,000 |
| CARE House of Oakland County | $10,000 |
| Sexual Assault Center | $10,000 |
| The Exodus Road Inc | $7,500 |
| Safe Families for Children | $7,500 |
| Bridges for Deaf Hard of Hearing | $6,000 |
| Mama Lere Hearing School | $6,000 |
| United Way of Berks County | $5,000 |
| Special Olympis Tennessee | $5,000 |
| Olivet Boys Girls Club | $5,000 |
| Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries | $5,000 |
| Nashville Rescue Mission | $5,000 |
| MACC Fund | $5,000 |
| Hollands Haul | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Crowther Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +38%
- TETHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $78k · revenue +74%
- BFBRIDGES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING5× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- THTHE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +25%
- SHShrine High Schoolone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
Oasis center targets undeserved youth, families, schools, and neighborhoods with a mission to help youth grow, thrive and create positive change in their lives and in our community.
The national domestic violence hotline provides crisis intervention, saftey planning, resources, information, and referrals to those affected by relationship abuse.
Disability rights tennessee is a nonprofit legal services organization dedicated to protecting the rights of tennesseans with disabilities.
To empower survivors to heal and engage all individuals and communities to address and prevent sexual assault and intimate partner violence
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Daybreak saves young lives by demonstrating love and bringing hope for their future.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE EXODUS ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK ARTS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Crowther Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Crowther Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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