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Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$279k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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52% of Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
2
’18
1
’19
2
’20
4
’21
0
’22
4
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$9,117
Largest grant, FY2023
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23
PhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentOther
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
FY20236$136k100%
FY20214$146k0%
FY20204$14k100%
FY20191$10k0%
FY20182$11k50%
FY20174$6kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$248kEducation$132kAnimals$130kArts & Culture$26kRecreation & Sports$20kInternational$5kHousing & Shelter$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Teton Raptor Center$130,14322%
Teton County Library Foundation & Friends$26,88441%
Community Center for the Arts$20,00011%
Sankaty Head Foundation Inc$15,00021%
Grand Teton National Park Foundation$5,34210%
Imani Milele Children Inc$5,00010%
Ucross Foundation$5,00010%
Good Samaritan Mission$3,55021%
Nantucket Historical Association$1,00010%
Yale University$1,0001n/a
'Sconset Trust Inc$50010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeton Raptor Center: $130,143 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTeton County Library Foundation & Friends: $26,884 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Center for the Arts: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSankaty Head Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGrand Teton National Park Foundation: $5,342 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImani Milele Children Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUcross Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGood Samaritan Mission: $3,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNantucket Historical Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget'Sconset Trust Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 10.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation

How much does Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation give?
Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $279,207 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), Education (23%), Animals (23%).
Who are Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Teton Raptor Center ($130k), Teton County Library Foundation & Friends ($27k), Community Center for the Arts ($20k).
Does Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung 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 Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation based?
Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation is based in WY.

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 18 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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