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The Crump Foundation

Spring, TX · EIN 76-0453687. Reported 78 grants totalling $317,826 to 28 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$317,826granted, 2021-2025
28recipients, as named on its returns
82%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,961,093assets, latest filing

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 Crump Foundation 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 $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $15,050. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
6 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
28 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
38 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Northwest Assistance MinistriesHouston, TX$52,340552025
The Folds of Honor FoundationOwasso, OK$30,165552025
Houston Methodist Hospital FoundationHouston, TX$30,000552025
MD AndersonHouston, TX$22,500552025
Boys & Girls CountryHockley, TX$22,370552025
Shriners' HospitalSacramento, CA$20,198442025
UC Davis Health SystemDavis, CA$19,500552025
Brookwood CommunityBrookshire, TX$16,000442025
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$16,000332025
Child Advocates - HoustonHouston, TX$13,600222025
Young LifePrescott, AZ$13,000552025
100 Club of HoustonHouston, TX$12,610442025
Tunnels to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$10,500222025
Baylor College of MedicineHouston, TX$10,000222025
The Centrum Arts LeagueSpring, TX$7,085332024
Community FoundationKerrville, TX$5,000112025
The RoseHouston, TX$4,000442025
Houston SPCAHouston, TX$2,000222025
The Als AssociationArlington, VA$1,568112025
The ArkgroupHouston, TX$1,500222025
University of California San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$1,500112022
Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine ArtsSpring, TX$1,240222024
Cypress Creek Christian Community CenterSpring, TX$1,000112021
Hope Center HoustonHouston, TX$1,000112025
Journey Home HoustonHouston, TX$1,000112024
Lakewood Methodist ChurchHouston, TX$1,000112025
The Council on RecoveryHouston, TX$1,000112021
Shining Stars GuildHouston, TX$150112023

19 of 28 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 82%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 35 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
14 grants
Human Services
10 grants
Health Care
5 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202110$38,000$2,250
202215$51,890$3,000
202313$60,500$5,000
202419$79,785$5,000
202521$87,651$5,000

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

65% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Texas
$205K
California
$41K
Oklahoma
$30K
Tennessee
$16K
Arizona
$13K
New York
$10K
Virginia
$2K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsGreater Houston Community Foundation7 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc7 shared recipientsThe Brown Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsThe Methodist Hospital6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Crump Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 15903 Guinstead Dr, Spring, TX, 77379. 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 76-0453687 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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