· Private foundation
William B & Saramel Crooks 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of WILLIAM B & SARAMEL CROOKS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH MS HILL COUNTRY PICNIC | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI | $7,500 |
| COPPER CANYON PRESS | $5,000 |
| BALLET MISSISSIPPI | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $231k · revenue +87%- YAYOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +79%
- HDHARBOR DAY SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +280%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +41%
- YAYACNOTOPHA ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $15k
- MCMS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM - MERIDIANone grant, 2021 · $14k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote mississippi arts and entertainment.
Mississippi state university foundation, inc. is a non-profit organization that assists mississippi state university in accomplishing its goals and mission by cultivating and soliciting private support and ensuring stewardship for all…
To advance the ideals of limited government, free markets, and strong families by providing government officials, the media, and the public with information and perspective to help them understand and defend liberty.
Mississippi gulf coast chamber of commerce, inc., a mississippi non-profit corporation (the "chamber") connects, informs, advocates and develops. the chamber is a membership organization that fosters leadership and the advancement of the…
To conserve, promote, and protect the open spaces and green places of ecological cultural or scenic significance in the counties of the mississippi coastal plain.
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…
To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.
To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…
Promote business interests of mississippi newspapers
The national blues museum explores and preserves the historic significance of the blues as the foundation of american music, celebrates the genre's various styles and recognizes the musicians who created, sustain, and continue to advance…
This organization may fundraise and is responsible for managing the tennessee performing arts center endowment in order to provide income to help defray operating costs of the tennessee performing arts center.
Provide public classical and pops musical performances throughout alabama featuring diverse selections of musical programing and provide organized musical education programs focused
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Museum of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leland Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER CANYON PRESS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY BLUES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds LELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Walker Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization William B & Saramel Crooks Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.