· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $95,052 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $11,511 |
| THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $9,117 |
| SANKATY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| IMANI MILELE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| UCROSS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $2,995 |
| SCONSET TRUST | $500 |
| THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $32 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTeton County Library Foundation & Friends4× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue +61%
- SHSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +60%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN MISSION2× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +48%
Funded once
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +313%- JCJACKSON COMMUNITY CORONA ASSISTANCEone grant, 2020 · $3k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
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Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Imani Milele Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Teton County Library Foundation & Friends ↗
- Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCROSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Imani Milele Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
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 Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
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.