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Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff 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.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$180kEnvironment$161kPublic Safety & Disaster$141kArts & Culture$84kCivil Rights$66kInternational$52kEducation$49kReligion$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$359k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$8,600
FRIENDS OF KJZZ LEADERSHIP SOCIETY$4,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$3,000
TEMPE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$2,000
DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,000
NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CONGREGATION BETH EL$2,000
DAVINCI SCIENCE CTV$1,000
MIM$1,000
LIVE AND LEARN AZ$1,000
HEARD MUSEUM$1,000
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

Your US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($659k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($120k) is mapped below.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $2k → 17%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $4k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $4k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
AZ
KS
DC
AL
TX

Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($120k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Switzerland$120k · 6 grants

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$761k · 36 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
5

Total granted

$761k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+79%

Still filing today

44%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 & CultureInternationalEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $141k · revenue +21%
  • TG
    THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $69k · revenue +123%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASU FOUNDATION - GAMMAGE
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%
  • AF
    ASU FOUNDATION - SUN DEVILS
    one grant, 2023 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
10
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
11
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
12
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Indian College Fund and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
17/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR CEREBRAL DYSRHYTHMIA — $120,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR CEREBRAL DYSRHYTHMIAWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTL GLOBAL SUPPORT CENTER — $33,000 · OtherWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTL GLOBAL SUPPORT CENTERFRIENDS OF KJZZ LEADERSHIP SOCIETY — $29,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF KJZZ LEADERSHIP SOCIETYPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $24,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODACLU — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $16,000 · Other+28 more — $140,430 · Other+28 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $141,250 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN I…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $19,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNA…THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $68,500 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CA…DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentDESERT BOTAN…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $53,500 · EducationARIZONA S…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $11,000 · EducationAMERICAN …CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $51,000 · AnimalsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $18,000 · Civil RightsREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $12,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$382,430International$160,250Environment$88,500Education$64,500Animals$51,000Civil Rights$18,000Human Services$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $141,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $68,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $53,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $51,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX ART MUSEUM — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $2,900 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM
  • Who funds Tempe Community Action Agency Inc
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
  • Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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