· Private foundation
Chrest Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Recidiviz Inc | $150,000 |
| Trust for Public Land | $100,000 |
| Colorado Fourteeners Initiative | $100,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $100,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $100,000 |
| Lone Star Justice Alliance | $100,000 |
| Montana Wilderness Association Inc | $100,000 |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $100,000 |
| Trust for Public Land | $100,000 |
| Western Resource Advocates | $100,000 |
| Glacier National Park Conservancy | $100,000 |
| Protect Our Winters | $100,000 |
| Conservation Colorado Education Fund | $60,000 |
| Georgia Center for Opportunity | $50,000 |
| Caf Momentum | $50,000 |
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: 79% of grant dollars ($6.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($1.8M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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: 21% of all-years giving ($1.8M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Chrest Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 32%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND5× · 2020–2024 · $775k · revenue +113%- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +62%
- LSLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $535k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- SSSinirli Sorumlu Filmmor Kadin Cevre Kultur Ve Isletme Kooperatifione grant, 2020 · $100k
- RIRecidiviz Incone grant, 2022 · $100k
- GDGreenspace Dallasgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +42%
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.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 59 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 THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds RECIDIVIZ INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Appleseed ↗
- Who funds Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund ↗
- Who funds BURIED ALIVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Girls Embracing Mothers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Greenspace Dallas ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON TURKEY INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds RECIDIVIZ INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Patagoniaorg · The Seminar Network Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Forest Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chrest Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chrest Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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