· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,200 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,000 |
| TEMPE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $2,000 |
| MIM | $1,000 |
| HEARD MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| THE WELCOME WELLSPRING | $1,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 15% of all-years giving ($120k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $141k · revenue +21%- TGTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC7× · 2017–2023 · $69k · revenue +139%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- AFASU FOUNDATION - GAMMAGEone grant, 2021 · $4k
CHARITY GLOBAL INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +17%- DSDAVINCI SCIENCE CTVone grant, 2024 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The amazon conservation team (act) partners with indigenous and other local communities to protect tropical forests and strengthen traditional culture.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)
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."
The american geosciences institute (agi) was founded in 1948, under a directive of the national academy of sciences, as a network of associations representing geoscientists with a diverse array of skills and knowledge of our planet. the…
Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.
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…
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- 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 SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara Crisp and Mark Nemschoff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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