The Croom Foundation functions as a bridge to close the gap of under-exposed and/or underprivileged students that are willing to work hard and want to continue their education after high school, but may not have the support, financial means, or guidance to attain that goal. Through offering multiple resources, support and aid, our students are able to turn dreams into reality.

Some of the actions we take to close the gap are:

• Taking students on college visits in various states
• We cover all travel expenses including: lodging, gas and food while on college visits
• We cover college application fees for our high school seniors applying for college
• We cover college move in expenses from dormitory expenses to dormitory fees as well as furnishings and food 
• We cover freshman items needed for class such as laptops, printers and other study material
• We cover uniforms our students wear for college visits as well as travel duffel bags and travel backpacks
• We cover financial literacy programs our seniors take their final semester of high school that teaches them money management for college
• We cover The Writing Den expenses, a 2 day writing workshop that our junior and seniors take to fine tune their writing skills
• We cover ACT Prep materials and ACT testing fees
• We cover anger management counseling or family counseling that our students have the option to attend to better their home life and themselves
• We cover the tuition cost for students we move to private schools to offset them dealing with certain bad influences that may hinder their learning process in a public school setting
• We work with our parents and complete FAFSA forms for our seniors due to many of them being First Generation College Students
• We work with our student athletes to make sure they are NCAA Clearinghouse Cleared to be able to play at the collegiate level