How much does Chrysalis Foundation give?

Chrysalis Foundation reported 51 itemized grants totaling $265,498, out of $311,155 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Chrysalis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (38%), Education (20%), Human Services (11%).

Who are Chrysalis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Des Moines Public Schools ($186k), Bondurant-Farrar CSD ($172k), Merrill Middle School PTA ($117k).

Does Chrysalis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Chrysalis Foundation based?

Chrysalis Foundation is based in IA.

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Iowa · Public charity

Chrysalis Foundation

Chrysalis invests in the safety, security, education, and economic empowerment of girls and women in greater des moines.

$311k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 51
Itemized grants FY2025: 41
Organizations funded FY2024: 22%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $265k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $3,850
Largest grant, FY2025: $24,900
Organizations funded a year: 26 to 44; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Chrysalis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	50	$265k	16%
FY2024	41	$278k	22%
FY2023	40	$277k	10%
FY2022	40	$262k	30%
FY2021	34	$235k	9%
FY2020	44	$322k	41%
FY2018	30	$326k	30%
FY2017	26	$295k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$858kEducation$442kHuman Services$247kHealth$212kHousing & Shelter$140kEmployment$123kRecreation & Sports$65kCivil Rights$51kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Des Moines Public Schools	$185,542	9	n/a
Bondurant-Farrar CSD	$171,550	9	n/a
Merrill Middle School PTA	$116,900	9	n/a
Holy Family School Inner-City Youth Fdn	$97,150	9	2%
Young Women's Resource Center	$93,550	9	2%
We Lift Job Search Center	$87,273	9	20%
Community Youth Concepts	$77,248	5	3%
Can Play	$63,800	4	4%
Families Forward	$63,689	9	1%
Crisis Intervention & Advocacy Center	$63,450	9	1%

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All grantees of Chrysalis Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Des Moines Public Schools	$185,542	9	n/a
Bondurant-Farrar CSD	$171,550	9	n/a
Merrill Middle School PTA	$116,900	9	n/a
Holy Family School Inner-City Youth Fdn	$97,150	9	2%
Young Women's Resource Center	$93,550	9	2%
We Lift Job Search Center	$87,273	9	20%
Community Youth Concepts	$77,248	5	3%
Can Play	$63,800	4	4%
Families Forward	$63,689	9	1%
Crisis Intervention & Advocacy Center	$63,450	9	1%
Future Net Incorporated	$61,948	8	3%
Beacon of Life D/B/A the Beacon	$60,398	9	2%
United Community Services Inc	$58,350	7	0%
Cards Club Inc	$56,800	9	n/a
Community Youth Concepts	$52,950	4	n/a
House of Mercy	$51,050	8	0%
Ethic Minorities of Burma Advocacy & Resource Center	$49,900	8	n/a
Greater Altoona Comm Service Campus	$49,500	4	1%
Freestore	$44,350	9	2%
Children and Family Urban Ministries D/B/A Children and Family Urban Movement	$41,000	4	0%
Highland Park Community Development Association	$37,600	6	n/a
Dress for Success Des Moines	$35,600	9	5%
Latinas Latinos Al Exito Inc	$34,500	9	4%
By Degrees Foundation	$34,100	7	1%
West Des Moines Community Schools Foundation	$31,445	6	2%
Carlisle School PTO	$30,100	4	n/a
Girls Rock Des Moines	$27,650	6	17%
Healthy Birth Day Inc	$27,600	7	1%
Mind and Spirit Counseling Center	$22,538	6	0%
Service Above Self Foundation of the Rotary Club of Northwest Des M	$21,050	4	n/a
Iowa College Foundation	$20,000	3	0%
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines	$19,750	4	0%
Urbandale Community Action Network	$18,800	4	8%
Carlisle Community School District	$18,500	3	n/a
Ellipsis Inc	$16,450	4	0%
Youth Emergency Services & Shelter of Iowa	$15,550	4	2%
Iowa Safe Schools	$14,850	6	1%
Prelude Behavioral Services	$14,250	3	0%
Refugee & Immigrant Voices in Action	$13,750	1	1%
PTA Iowa Congress	$12,500	2	n/a
Children and Families of Iowa	$12,300	5	0%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Iowa	$12,250	1	0%
Genesis Inc	$11,400	3	1%
Soil and Water Conservation Society	$10,500	2	0%
Waukee Comm School District	$10,500	2	n/a
Home Opportunities Made Easy Inc	$10,050	4	0%
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice	$9,650	4	0%
Give Joy Inc	$9,307	3	n/a
Crossroads of Iowa	$9,180	4	n/a
Shalom Community Impact Center	$9,100	3	1%
Adventures in Social Drama	$8,869	4	n/a
Dowling-St Joseph Alumni Association Investment Co LLC	$8,500	1	n/a
Rotary International	$8,250	2	n/a
Weeks PTO	$8,250	1	n/a
Please Pass the Love	$8,000	2	5%
Latinas Unidas Por Un Nuevo Amanecer	$7,600	2	0%
Girl Scouts of Greater Iowa	$6,700	4	0%
Safe Center of Iowa	$6,500	2	1%
Morris Elementary PTA	$6,400	2	n/a
Dowling Catholic High School	$6,250	1	n/a
Des Moines Refugee Support	$5,900	2	1%
Iowa Center for Children's Justice	$5,600	3	1%
Iowa Center for Economic Success	$5,500	1	1%
Perkins Elementary School PTA	$5,250	2	n/a
Community Housing Initiatives Inc	$5,250	1	0%
Opportunity on Deck	$5,000	1	n/a
Knock and Drop Iowa	$4,800	2	1%
Love for Red Inc	$3,869	3	2%
Hci Vns Care Services	$3,200	1	n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa	$3,100	3	0%
Youth and Shelter Services Inc	$3,100	2	0%
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement	$2,500	2	0%
Jewels Academy	$2,000	1	1%
Mindspring Mental Health Alliance	$2,000	2	0%
Raise the Bar Initiative	$1,650	1	1%
Grace Fitness	$1,500	1	n/a
Latin Leadership Initiative of Greater Des Moines	$1,100	1	n/a
Easter Seal Society of Iowa Inc	$1,000	1	0%
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Globalgiving Foundation Inc	$500	1	0%
State University of Iowa	$500	1	n/a
Willkie House Inc	$500	1	0%
Anawim Housing Inc	$500	1	n/a
Afghan Partners in Iowa	$500	1	n/a
Iowa State University Foundation	$500	1	0%
The Links Foundation Incorporated	$250	1	0%
Made 4 Mankind Foundation Dba Project Hope	$250	1	n/a
Back 2 School Iowa	$250	1	n/a
Drake University	$250	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chrysalis Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 58.

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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.

United Way of Central IowaIA89.5× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Iowa · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · GreenState Credit Union · Lsb 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 Chrysalis Foundation

How much does Chrysalis Foundation give?: Chrysalis Foundation reported 51 itemized grants totaling $265,498, out of $311,155 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Chrysalis Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (38%), Education (20%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Chrysalis Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Des Moines Public Schools ($186k), Bondurant-Farrar CSD ($172k), Merrill Middle School PTA ($117k).
Does Chrysalis Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chrysalis Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Iowa, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc.
Where is Chrysalis Foundation based?: Chrysalis Foundation is based in IA.