· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $54,500 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $33,983 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM | $29,350 |
| STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY | $16,700 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $14,000 |
| PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $7,500 |
| HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $4,450 |
| TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY | $4,250 |
| LONE STAR COLLEGE KINGWOOD | $4,200 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE | $3,750 |
| WEATHERFORD COLLEGE | $3,750 |
| HOUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +5%
- HCHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
- SUSchreiner University4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
University of the southwest is a christ-centered educational community dedicated to developing men and women for a lifetime of servant leadership by emphasizing faith, responsibility, and initiative.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 109 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.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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