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The Trammell & Margaret Crow 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.

$710k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$803kHealth$520kArts & Culture$465kEnvironment$310kCrime & Legal$225kSocial Science$225kReligion$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$75,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS$250,000
COMMIT2 DALLAS$100,000
STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION$100,000
NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE$75,000
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE$75,000
HIGHLAND PARK UNITED CHURCH$50,000
PHOENIX HOUSE OF TEXAS$25,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$25,000
CENTER FOR INTEGRITY IN NEWS REPORTING$10,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS: $250k → 11%DEPLOYUS INC: $50k → 16%CARDUS Inc: $50k → 14%Feeding Westchester: $50k → 9%FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH: $250k → 17%TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION: $125k → 8%National Civic Art Society: $50k → 14%CARDUS INC: $50k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: $250k → 11%TENEO INC: $50k → 4%SPIRIT OF AMERICA: $25k → 7%JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $125k → 8%DONORS TRUST: $50k → 9%WNET: $50k → 17%Texas Trees Foundation: $125k → 8%NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY: $50k → 14%CARDUS INC: $30k → 8%WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE: $100k → 11%TENEO INC: $25k → 4%Institute for Justice: $75k → 7%VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES: $185k → 17%NATIONAL CIVIC ART: $50k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $75k → 7%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY: $50k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $75k → 7%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $75k → 17%COMMIT2 DALLAS: $100k → 14%CATO Institute: $25k → 14%NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $75k → 14%COMMIT2DALLAS: $100k → 17%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED CHURCH: $50k → 14%THE NEW CENTER: $50k → 14%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $25k → 17%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $50k → 14%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $25k → 17%HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $50k → 14%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $25k → 17%Highland Park United Methodist Church: $50k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $250k → 14%THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $175k → 14%The Dallas Foundation: $125k → 14%PHOENIX HOUSE OF TEXAS: $25k → 14%THE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%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

ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
DE
AZ
AR
DC
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of The Trammell & Margaret Crow Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Trammell & Margaret Crow Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
28

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+5%

Still filing today

70%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $585k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsPublic 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

  • TT
    TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $250k · revenue +155%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $225k · revenue +57%
  • NR
    NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • FF
    Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -8%
  • US
    UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -45%
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 International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
6
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
7
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
8
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
9
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—
11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
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 American Transparency; the most unlike its peers is American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 47 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherTEXAS TREES FOUNDATIONUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $250,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $225,000 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTEHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $150,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCARDUS Inc: $130,000 · OtherCARDUS IncCOMMIT2DALLAS: $100,000 · OtherCOMMIT2DALLASTENEO INC: $75,000 · Other+14 more: $335,000 · Other+14 moreTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $675,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DALLAS FOUNDATIONFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $250,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation For Excellence in …JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLEDonors Trust Inc: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyAmerican Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc: $250,000 · EducationAmerican Academy of Sci…VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC: $185,000 · EducationVERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACAD…COMMIT2DALLAS: $100,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASSTEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationSTEELE FAMILY FOUNDATIO…Witherspoon Institute Inc: $100,000 · EducationWitherspoon Institute I…Teach for America Inc: $95,000 · EducationTeach for America IncSouthern Methodist University: $75,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist Univ…+3 more: $26,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF …NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CI…WNET: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWNET+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $225,000 · Civil RightsThe New Center: $50,000 · Civil RightsPhoenix Houses of Texas Inc: $125,000 · HealthBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $10,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthNo One Left Behind: $50,000 · Human Services
Other$1,515,000Philanthropy$1,177,500Education$931,000Arts & Culture$460,000Civil Rights$275,000Health$140,000Human Services$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $675,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation For Excellence in Higher Education: $250,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTEXAS TREES FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $225,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC: $185,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY: $150,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhoenix Houses of Texas Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Center: $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWNET: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPLOYUS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDonors Trust Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCENIC TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INTEGRITY IN NEWS REPORTING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Lynde and Harry B…Texas Instruments Fou…Communities Foundatio…The Moody FoundationDonors Trust IncThe Dallas FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation IncWI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The Trammell & Margaret 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.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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