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Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust

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.

$220k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,900
Largest grant, FY2025
$54,500
Organizations funded a year
18 to 37
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$220k26%
FY202428$267k25%
FY202321$133k33%
FY202218$190k22%
FY202132$103k100%
FY202037$96k46%
FY201934$102kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.1M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Houston$82,6003n/a
Sam Houston State University$23,5275n/a
Houston Community College Foundation$13,50030%
Houston Christian University$12,15250%
Austin Community College$11,2502n/a
Schreiner University$9,15240%
Tyler Junior College$8,3012n/a
Southwestern University$7,55220%
West Texas A&M University$7,5002n/a
University of St Thomas$6,50030%
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All grantees of Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Houston$82,6003n/a
Sam Houston State University$23,5275n/a
Houston Community College Foundation$13,50030%
Houston Christian University$12,15250%
Austin Community College$11,2502n/a
Schreiner University$9,15240%
Tyler Junior College$8,3012n/a
Southwestern University$7,55220%
West Texas A&M University$7,5002n/a
University of St Thomas$6,50030%
Baylor University$6,00020%
Texas Womans University$5,7502n/a
Huston-Tillotson University$4,50020%
Weatherford College$3,7501n/a
Midland College$2,0002n/a
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor$2,00010%
Lubbock Christian University$1,80010%
Collin County Community$1,6521n/a
University of Dallas$1,55210%
Dallas Baptist University$1,50010%
Knct$1,3521n/a
Lone Star College System$1,0001n/a
Texas State Technical College$6251n/a

Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($896k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHouston Community College Foundation: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Christian University: $12,152 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSchreiner University: $9,152 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwestern University: $7,552 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuston-Tillotson University: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mary Hardin-Baylor: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLubbock Christian University: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $1,552 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Baptist University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Tulsa Community FoundationOK23.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Callaway Foundation · The Robert A Welch Foundation · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Leola W and Charles H Hugg Trust Xxxxx8007 · Charles & Lois Marie Bright Foundation · The Mclaughlin Doty Foundation · Glaser Family Charitable Foundation · Greater Texas 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.

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About Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust

How much does Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust give?
Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust reported 31 grants totaling $220,133 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Houston ($83k), Sam Houston State University ($24k), Houston Community College Foundation ($14k).
Does Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tulsa Community Foundation, San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc, Folds of Honor Foundation.
Where is Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust based?
Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust is based in OK.

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 109 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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