About Crews Family Foundation
The Crews Family Foundation concentrates its grantmaking on education and youth services in the Memphis/Collierville region, directing nearly all dollars to a very small set of local institutions. Funding is dominated by multi-award support to the University of Memphis and large unrestricted operating grants to Youth Villages, indicating a preference for strengthening higher education and youth behavioral health/child-welfare capacity. The foundation appears mission-driven toward regional impact rather than broad, diversified national giving.
Focus Areas
Memphis-area higher education (University of Memphis)Youth behavioral health and child-welfare services (Youth Villages)Unrestricted/operating support for regional institutions
Who They Fund
nonprofit organizations (general)organizations hosting conferences or convenings
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated: very few, large grants focused on repeat grantees; predominantly unrestricted/operating support; geographically focused on Memphis/Collierville area.
Funding Style
general operating / unrestricted support
About Crews Family Foundation
The Crews Family Foundation’s recent giving is anchored by repeated operating support to the University of Memphis Foundation and Youth Villages, two Memphis institutions that show how tightly its grantmaking is tied to local education and youth services. Those awards are not isolated: the foundation has also backed Teach for America, Memphis Teacher Residency, and several other Memphis-based nonprofits, with most grants structured as unrestricted or general operating support. That pattern points to a funder focused on strengthening organizations already working in the city rather than financing short-term projects. Across the recent grant list, the same local institutions recur in multiple years, including the University of Memphis Foundation, Youth Villages, Memphis Teacher Residency, Agape Child & Family Services, Mifa, Mid-South Food Bank, and Church Health Center. The foundation’s named community support pillars are education, poverty, social services, and community enhancements, and those themes align with the organizations it repeatedly funds. Its grantmaking is concentrated in the Memphis area and Shelby County, with Germantown also appearing among recipient locations. The foundation’s own program descriptions emphasize direct financial support for nonprofits serving the Memphis metro and Mid-South region.
What Crews Family Foundation Funds
Education is one of the clearest threads in Crews Family Foundation’s grantmaking. The foundation gave $2,140,000 in 2025 to University of Memphis Foundation for general operating support, and it also made operating grants to Memphis Teacher Residency in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Teach for America received operating support as well, including $277,400 in 2023 and additional awards in 2024. Youth and family services are another major emphasis. Youth Villages received $1,050,000 in both 2023 and 2025, plus $650,000 in 2024, all for general operating support. Agape Child & Family Services also received operating grants in 2024 and 2025. Beyond these areas, the foundation supported basic-needs and community infrastructure work through grants to Mid-South Food Bank, United Way of the Mid-South, Mifa, and the National Civil Rights Museum, all in Memphis.
How Crews Family Foundation Gives
Grant size data show a middle-of-the-road operating-grant pattern: p25 is $3,000, median is $10,000, and p75 is $30,000. The recent grants list, however, is dominated by much larger unrestricted awards to a small set of repeat recipients, including multi-year support to the same organizations. The foundation appears to favor recurring support over one-off awards. University of Memphis Foundation, Youth Villages, Memphis Teacher Residency, Agape Child & Family Services, Mifa, Mid-South Food Bank, Church Health Center, and The Trezevant Foundation all appear in multiple years. The foundation is a family foundation and does not make program-related investments. One active program, General Community Grants, accepts unsolicited requests and reviews them quarterly; several other listed programs do not accept unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5M
Total Assets
$108.3M
Total Revenue
$7.7M
Total Expenses
$6.5M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $3K and $30K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$3K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$30K
Geographic Reach
Local6 states funded
About 93% of grants go to recipients in TN.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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