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The Bryan C & Christina I Cressey Foundation at a glance

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The Bryan C & Christina I Cressey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Philanthropy$1.2MHealth$1.0MReligion$205kArts & Culture$123kEducation$69kEnvironment$35kAnimals$32kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$122k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHYSICIAN COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE$4,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRAVEHEARTS: $5k → 6%BRAVEHEARTS: $5k → 6%CHARITY WATER: $2k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 12 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
50

Total granted

$2.5M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-45%
+17%

Still filing today

33%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentPhilanthropyReligionHealthOther
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

  • BC
    BRYAN CRESSEY AND ILIANA SWEIS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $1.2M · revenue -73% · 73% of their budget
  • AB
    ABOVE BEYOND FAMILY RECOVERY CENTER
    2× · 2018–2019 · $997k
  • SM
    ST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    3× · 2018–2020 · $106k

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $38k
  • TA
    THE ADLER PLANETARIUMgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +35%
  • PD
    PORCH DE SALOMON CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +81%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
3
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Global Sanctuary for Elephants

See schedule odedicated to rescuing, protecting and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. our founding directors and elephant care specialist consult internationally for the wellbeing of captive elephants. currently based in brazil,…

Animals
6
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
7
The Raptor Trust

The raptor trust is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of injured and orphaned raptors in new jersey and beyond. we strive to educate the public about the vital role these magnificent birds play in our ecosystem,…

Animals
8
Morris Animal Foundation

Morris animal foundation's (the foundation's) mission is to bridge science and resources to advance the health of animals. since the foundation's founding in 1948, more than 20,000 species have been helped through scientific studies and…

Animals
9
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
10
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
11
The International Rhino Foundation

The international rhino foundation (irf) ensures the survival of rhinos through strategic partnerships, targeted protection, and scientifically sound interventions.

Animals
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Window to the World Communications Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bryan Cressey and Iliana Sweis Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/34
Grantees still filing
20/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABOVE BEYOND FAMILY RECOVERY CENTER: $997,254 · OtherABOVE BEYOND FAMILY RECOVERY CENTERST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $106,000 · OtherST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHLANG LANG MUSIC FOUNDATION: $68,800 · OtherST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $51,550 · Other+41 more: $180,579 · Other+41 moreBRYAN CRESSEY AND ILIANA SWEIS FOUNDATION: $1,227,531 · PhilanthropyBRYAN CRESSEY AND ILIANA SWEIS FOUNDATION+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM: $35,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $7,900 · Arts & CultureI GIULLARI DI PIAZZA INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $3,823 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $140 · Arts & CultureBARRINGTON AREA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $26,000 · EnvironmentSOL Communications Inc: $8,000 · EnvironmentROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM: $3,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentPORCH DE SALOMON CORPORATION: $25,000 · ReligionThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $6,000 · ReligionMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $1,000 · EducationThe PCRM Foundation: $11,700 · HealthTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health
Other$1,404,183Philanthropy$1,228,031Arts & Culture$50,863Environment$38,000Religion$31,000Education$21,000Health$16,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRYAN CRESSEY AND ILIANA SWEIS FOUNDATION: $1,227,531 over 3y, 73% of budgetTHE ADLER PLANETARIUM: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe PCRM Foundation: $11,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEMERALD MOUNTAIN SCHOOL: $11,373 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES: $7,900 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $3,823 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HEALING HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS: $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPEAK UP FOR HORSES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cara Program: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMFHA Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRob Mathews Memorial Foundation: $500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetKALEIDOSCOPE SCHOOL OF FINE ART INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $40 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 Duchossois Family…Amg Charitable Gift F…Shell USA Company Fou…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for Good
The Duchossois Family FoundationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duchossois Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good

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 The Bryan C & Christina I Cressey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bryan C & Christina I Cressey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    How do I get to The Bryan C & Christina I Cressey Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bryan C & Christina I Cressey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 64 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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