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Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$96k
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
14
Organizations funded FY2020
50%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$550
Largest grant, FY2020
$89,263
Organizations funded a year
4 to 14
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 50% of the organizations Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
AnimalsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther
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
FY202014$96k50%
FY201910$5k80%
FY20184$4k50%
FY20176$7kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$89kHousing & Shelter$8kHealth$5kAnimals$3kFood & Nutrition$2kEnvironment$2kEducation$1kInternational$800Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Compassion & Choices$2,50030%
Americus-Sumter Fuller Center for Housing$2,0002n/a
National Wildlife Federation$1,10020%
The Fuller Center for Housing Inc$1,00010%
American Council of Trustees and Alumni$1,00010%
Tohono Chul Park Inc$5001n/a
Defenders of Wildlife$35020%
Raisinghope Inc$30010%
The Carter Center Inc$30010%
Tucson Wildlife Center Inc$25010%
Ocean Conservancy$10010%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCompassion & Choices: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fuller Center for Housing Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Council of Trustees and Alumni: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRaisinghope Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTucson Wildlife Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $100 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 9.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun

How much does Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun give?
Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun reported 14 grants totaling $96,308 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Housing & Shelter (7%), Health (4%).
Who are Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Compassion & Choices ($3k), Americus-Sumter Fuller Center for Housing ($2k), National Wildlife Federation ($1k).
Does Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun 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 Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun based?
Margaret Craig Chrisman Family Foun is based in AZ.

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 24 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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