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William B & Saramel Crooks Foundation at a glance

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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.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$651kCommunity Improvement$423kFood & Nutrition$249kEducation$189kHealth$54kPhilanthropy$8kHuman Services$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%MUSIC MAKERS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $45k → 13%COPPER CANYON PRESS: $15k → 11%EXTRA TABLE: $10k → 15%YOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL: $28k → 18%NORTH MS HILL COUNTRY PICNIC: $10k → 19%JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL: $10k → 23%MS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM - MERIDIAN: $14k → 24%DELTA SUPPER CLUB FOUNDATION: $10k → 29%JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL: $10k → 36%MUSIC MAKERS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%COPPER CANYON PRESS: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MS FOUNDATION: $25k → 18%NORTH MS HILL COUNTRY PICNIC: $10k → 19%CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDREN'S OF MS: $10k → 23%JUKE JOINT FESTIVAL: $10k → 36%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE: $20k → 23%MUSIC MAKERS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $35k → 13%COPPER CANYON PRESS: $10k → 11%SOUTHERN FOODWAYS ALLIANCE: $25k → 18%NORTH MS HILL COUNTRY PICNIC: $10k → 19%DREAM NOTE: $340k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE: $20k → 23%MUSIC MAKERS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $35k → 13%SOUTHERN FOODWAYS ALLIANCE: $25k → 18%NORTH MS HILL COUNTRY PICNIC: $30k → 19%DREAM NOTE: $40k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE: $15k → 23%MUSIC MAKERS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $33k → 13%YOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL: $17k → 18%NORTH MS HILL COUNTRY PICNIC: $22k → 19%DREAM NOTE: $40k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE: $10k → 23%MUSIC MAKERS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $30k → 13%YOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL: $15k → 18%MS BOOK FESTIVAL: $20k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVA: $25k → 23%MUSIC MAKERS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $13k → 13%YACNOTOPHA ARTS COUNCIL: $15k → 18%MS BOOK FESTIVAL: $20k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE: $15k → 23%SOUTHERN FOODWAY ALLIANCE: $25k → 18%NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVA: $15k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVA: $15k → 23%SOUTHERN FOODWAY ALLIANCE: $25k → 18%NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE: $14k → 23%NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE: $14k → 23%SOUTHERN FOODWAY ALLIANCE: $15k → 18%NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE: $14k → 23%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

VT
WA
CA
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 17 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
18

Total granted

$1.4M
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+262%

Still filing today

24%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $231k · revenue +87%
  • YA
    YOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +79%
  • HD
    HARBOR DAY SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +280%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • YA
    YACNOTOPHA ARTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • MC
    MS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM - MERIDIAN
    one grant, 2021 · $14k
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
Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center Inc

To promote mississippi arts and entertainment.

Arts & Culture
2
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Mississippi Center for Public Policy

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.

Education
4
Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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5
Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain

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.

Environment
6
Deep South Today

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Theatre Memphis

To produce plays and encourage the arts by performance and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
8
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
Mississippi Press Association Inc

Promote business interests of mississippi newspapers

Arts & Culture
10
National Blues Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Tennessee Performing Arts Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Alabama Symphonic Association Inc

Provide public classical and pops musical performances throughout alabama featuring diverse selections of musical programing and provide organized musical education programs focused

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Museum of Art Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $420,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH MS HILL COUNTRY PICNIC: $102,000 · OtherNORTH MS HILL COUNTRY PICNICNEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE: $85,500 · OtherNEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGESOUTHERN FOODWAY ALLIANCE: $75,000 · OtherSOUTHERN FOODWAY ALLIANCEYOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $70,000 · OtherYOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL INCNEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE: $65,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVA: $55,000 · OtherSOUTHERN FOODWAYS ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Other+19 more: $201,300 · Other+19 moreMUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC: $230,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC MAKER FOUNDATI…COPPER CANYON PRESS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCOPPER CANYON PRESS+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationHARBOR DAY SCHOOL: $9,000 · EducationEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $7,500 · PhilanthropyHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyLELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,253,800Arts & Culture$280,500Education$34,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Philanthropy$8,500Community Improvement$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC: $230,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetYOKNAPATAWPHA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $70,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCOPPER CANYON PRESS: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHARBOR DAY SCHOOL: $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBALLET MISSISSIPPI INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Ergon Foundation IncSelby and Richard McR…Walker FoundationRaymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ergon Foundation IncMS15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William B & Saramel Crooks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William B & Saramel Crooks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 38 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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