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The Chrisman Foundation at a glance

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The Chrisman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$309k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$525kHuman Services$488kHousing & Shelter$349kCrime & Legal$338kFood & Nutrition$156kPublic Safety & Disaster$92kAnimals$49kRecreation & Sports$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $179k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$922k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LANTERN HOUSE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
MORAN EYE CENTER$20,000
JOYCE HANSEN FOOD BANK$20,000
BOX ELDER COMMUNITY PANTRY$15,000
BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK$13,350
CHRISTMAS BOX HOUSE$12,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
OGDEN RESCUE MISSION$12,000
ACTS SIX SOUP KITCHEN$10,000
KOMMISSION FOR KIDS$10,000
KEYSTONE RECOVERY CENTER$10,000
NEW HOPE CRISIS CENTER$10,000
WOMEN'S RETREAT HOUSE$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $12k → 9%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $12k → 9%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 9%BOX ELDER FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $3k → 8%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 9%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 9%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 9%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $400 → 9%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

NY
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
TN
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 29 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
18

Total granted

$1.9M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+41%

Still filing today

34%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • NH
    New Hope Crisis Center of Box Elder County
    8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +129%
  • SA
    ST ANNE'S CENTER
    3× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +12%
  • WR
    WOMENS RETREAT HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +76% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • 2H
    2 HANDS HELPING AUSTRIALIA
    one grant, 2020 · $90k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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2
Family Institute of Northern Utah

Community-based mental health agency that provides therapy and research services for under-served family needs.

Human Services
3
Wildlife Center of Salt Lake

Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release

Animals
4
Butte Rescue Mission

The Butte Rescue Mission is transforming lives in Jesus's name, offering assistance to those facing homelessness by providing food, shelter and clothing to restore individuals and reunite families, empowering them to reintegrate into…

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5
Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness

USARA's mission is to connect and inspire communities to advocate for addiction recovery. We envision a Utah where recovery community and connection are recognized as the most valuable assets for people to recover from addiction.

Health
6
Helping Hand Association Inc

Organizations mission: Empowering and enriching the lives of individuals we serve by providing effective and affordable treatment services to a diverse population.

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7
Sunshine Rescue Mission

Since 1957, SRM has provided safe emergency shelter, meals, and clothing to anyone in need. All participants are experiencing homelessness and living below the federal poverty line at intake. Located in Flagstaff, we have three facilities.…

Religion
8
Uintah Basin Faith Based Recovery Foundation

To provide addiction recovery opportunities for individuals.

Health
9
River Bend Recovery

A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.

Health
10
New Hope Ranch
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11
Bear River Mental Health Services Inc

Provide mental health services to residents of Cache, Rich, and Box Elder Counties in Utah.

Health
12
24 7 Reset Ministry Incorporated

24/7 reset is a christ centered drug and alcohol recovery program in hayden idaho. we provide 16 months of treatment and counseling. we work with probation and parole and the district court to help people overcome their addiction to drugs…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Womens Retreat House; the most unlike its peers is Weber County School District 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

19 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. 19 of the 51 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $338,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLATERN HOUSE: $180,000 · OtherLATERN HOUSENew Hope Crisis Center of Box Elder County: $170,000 · OtherNew Hope Crisis Center of Box Elder CountySALVATION ARMY: $155,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYJOHN MORAN EYE CENTER: $145,000 · OtherJOHN MORAN EYE CENTERST ANNE'S CENTER: $120,000 · OtherST ANNE'S CENTER2 HANDS HELPING AUSTRIALIA: $90,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH: $85,000 · OtherBOX ELDER COMMUNITY PANTRY: $85,000 · OtherJOHN A MORAN EYE CENTER: $60,000 · Other+28 more: $366,100 · Other+28 moreWOMENS RETREAT HOUSE: $80,000 · HealthWOMENS RE…KEYSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $66,340 · HealthKEYSTONE …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 · HealthST JUDE C…Alano Club of Weber County: $10,000 · HealthAlano Clu…SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthSEAGER ME…+1 more: $530 · HealthRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $49,000 · Human ServicesBOX ELDER FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $400 · Human ServicesACTS SIX SOUP KITCHEN: $47,000 · Food & NutritionHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $26,000 · AnimalsA NEW BEGINNING ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,000 · AnimalsWeber County School District Foundation: $2,500 · Education
Other$1,794,100Health$178,870Human Services$51,900Food & Nutrition$47,000Animals$30,000Education$2,500

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 budgetNew Hope Crisis Center of Box Elder County: $170,000 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBOX ELDER COMMUNITY PANTRY: $85,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetWOMENS RETREAT HOUSE: $80,000 over 8y, 26% of budgetKEYSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $66,340 over 7y, 41% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $49,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetACTS SIX SOUP KITCHEN: $47,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $26,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK: $25,350 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlano Club of Weber County: $10,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetA NEW BEGINNING ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWEBER HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWeber County School District Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOX ELDER FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERING ADDICT INC: $530 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF OGDEN INC: $400 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds New Hope Crisis Center of Box Elder County ↗
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOX ELDER COMMUNITY PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS RETREAT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTS SIX SOUP KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds THE BOWLERS TO VETERANS LINK ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Alano Club of Weber County ↗
  • Who funds SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds A NEW BEGINNING ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds WEBER HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Weber County School District Foundation ↗

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 Norther…Rich Junior E & Blanc…C Scott & Dorothy E W…Ihc Health Services I…James E & Norma Kier …Beaver Creek Foundati…The Alan and Jeanne H…Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
United Way of Northern UtahUT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Northern Utah · Rich Junior E & Blanche B Fdn · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · James E & Norma Kier Charitable Foundation · Beaver Creek Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Chrisman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chrisman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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