Skip to content

Arizona · Private foundation

Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,200
Organizations funded a year
14 to 29
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$356k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$14k11%
FY202414$32k21%
FY202327$111k7%
FY202227$155k11%
FY202123$124k22%
FY202029$143k10%
FY201916$61k0%
FY201827$87k15%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
AZ
KS
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($346k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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: $22,000 over 9y, 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 budgetNational Park Foundation: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Indian College Fund: $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: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSheboygan County Historical Society: $3,400 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute of Noetic Sciences: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chinati Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation with peer funders

About Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation

How much does Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation give?
Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $13,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Environment (21%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%).
Who are Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: World Central Kitchen Inc ($141k), The Grand Canyon Trust Inc ($69k), Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($54k).
Does Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation based?
Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation is based in AZ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff’s filings →

More from the funding graph