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Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation at a glance

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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
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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.

01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
$9,117
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 6%NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $95k → 7%IMANI MILELE CHILDREN: $5k → 12%TRADE SECRETS: $250 → 9%JACKSON COMMUNITY CORONA ASSISTANCE: $3k → 5%UCROSS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $100k → 10%SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $12k → 7%TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $125k → 5%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%SANKATY FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $9k → 7%TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $5k → 5%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 6%THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3k → 7%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIO: $5k → 5%SCONSET TRUST: $500 → 6%THE NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $32 → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL: $32k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL: $25k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL: $25k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL: $25k → 5%CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $20k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL: $17k → 5%TETON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%TETON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%TETON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6k → 5%GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $3k → 5%TETON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%GOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $1k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 4 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$176k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+313%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
PhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TR
    TETON RAPTOR CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $130k · revenue +19%
  • TC
    Teton County Library Foundation & Friends
    4× · 2017–2021 · $27k · revenue +61%
  • SH
    SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +313%
  • JC
    JACKSON COMMUNITY CORONA ASSISTANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • NH
    NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +214%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
6
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
7
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
9
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
10
Jefferson National Parks Association

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
12
Tahoe Community Foundation

The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $130,143 · OtherTETON RAPTOR CENTERTHE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $100,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGESANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC+4 more: $9,250 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $124,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLENATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $118,707 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+2 more: $10,342 · PhilanthropyTeton County Library Foundation & Friends: $26,884 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $4,000 · EducationCommunity Center for the Arts: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureImani Milele Children Inc: $5,000 · InternationalGOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $3,550 · Housing & Shelter'SCONSET TRUST INC: $500 · Environment
Other$254,393Philanthropy$253,049Education$30,884Arts & Culture$21,000International$5,000Housing & Shelter$3,550Environment$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $130,143 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $124,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $118,707 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chansoo & Elisabeth Bittner Joung Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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