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The Crew Family Foundation Inc

Plainville, CT · EIN 06-1191170. Reported 64 grants totalling $3,151,787 to 30 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$17,500median grant
$3,151,787granted, 2020-2023
30organizations funded
45%of grantees funded again the next year

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Crew Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $17,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $521,037. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
4 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
13 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Map InternationalBrunswick, GA$910,000932023
Fidelity CharitableCincinnati, OH$521,037112023
Kids Alive InternationalValparaiso, IN$430,000322021
Kids Alive InternationalAlpharetta, GA$410,000222023
Cure InternationalGrand Rapids, MI$300,000332023
Connecticut Children's Medical Center Foundation IncHartford, CT$131,600542023
Valley Community Baptist ChurchAvon, CT$78,500422023
Waypoint Adventure IncLexington, MA$69,850442023
Pan African Academy of Christian SurgeonsDallas, TX$50,000222023
Faith's LodgePlymouth, MN$45,000332022
Salvation ArmyWaterbury, CT$30,000532023
Christ the King ChurchNewton, MA$25,000112022
CmdaBristol, TN$25,000112022
Agape House of BristolBristol, CT$15,000112023
Mary's PlaceWindsor, CT$15,000322022
The Agape HouseBristol, CT$15,000212022
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$14,300222023
Bloomfield Fire DeptBloomfield, CT$10,000112023
Christian Medical and Dental AssociationBristol, TN$10,000112023
Hope for HaitiNaples, FL$10,000112020
Crescent CoveSt Louis Park, MN$5,000112020
East Hartford Rotary Charitable Foundation - Koats for KidsEast Hartford, CT$5,000112021
Samaritan's PurseBoone, NC$5,000112021
Senior Transportation ServicesNew Britain, CT$5,000112023
Trinity Church - Carmon Capitol Improvement FundWindsor, CT$5,000112020
ColinkKenmore, WA$4,000112022
Bread for LifeSouthington, CT$2,500112023
Plantsville Congretional ChurchPlantsville, CT$2,500112023
Intervarsity Christian FellowshipusaMadison, WI$2,000112020
People International USAVancouver, WA$500112023

12 of 30 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 45%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

International Affairs
23 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Religion
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202019$692,600$10,000
202112$681,000$22,500
202216$498,850$20,000
202317$1,279,337$15,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 42% of this one's giving went to organizations in Georgia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Georgia
$1.3M
Ohio
$521K
Indiana
$430K
Connecticut
$315K
Michigan
$300K
Massachusetts
$95K
Minnesota
$50K
Texas
$50K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc10 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $17,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Georgia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Crew Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 100 East Main Street, Plainville, CT, 06062. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 06-1191170 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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