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CRISTOSAL INC

CRISTOSAL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,321,144 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,670,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$6.1M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$1.7M
14/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Cristosal Inc does

Mission

We work to promote justice, human rights and democratic societies in central america, through strategic litigation, research, education, human rights monitoring and assistance for victims of human rights violations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Strategic litigation: our legal action focuses on strategic litigation that will directly impact the rights of excluded and invisible groups in guatemala, el salvador, and honduras. Cristosal provides legal assistance and support to victims of forced displacement and people who have been deported who have a need for protection. We support the lgbtiq+ community by bringing legal action in cases of hate crimes. We seek legal recourse for the improved conditions and treatment of incarcerated people as well as those who have been victimized by police brutality or other abuse of authority. We provide legal support to the victims of crimes against humanity in ongoing proceedings.protection: we promote the empowerment of victims of human rights violations and victims with protection needs through personalized plans for getting victims back on their feet. We use a psychosocial approach that seeks to strengthen individual, family and community capacities, as well as to engage government institutions to fulfill their obligations to guarantee victims' rights. We call this "activating the state." human rights research: the human rights research program is responsible for collecting,…

    $5,502,274 spent$51,287 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,502,274.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($953k) Net assets 100 ($287k)2018 Revenue 177 ($2.0M) Expenses 192 ($1.8M) Net assets 98 ($280k)2019 Revenue 216 ($2.4M) Expenses 239 ($2.3M) Net assets 142 ($409k)2020 Revenue 171 ($1.9M) Expenses 167 ($1.6M) Net assets 254 ($730k)2021 Revenue 284 ($3.2M) Expenses 257 ($2.5M) Net assets 501 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 445 ($5.0M) Expenses 482 ($4.6M) Net assets 630 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 240 ($2.7M) Expenses 437 ($4.2M) Net assets 685 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 550 ($6.1M) Expenses 670 ($6.4M) Net assets 576 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (550)Expenses (670)Net assets (576)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $2.0M (+69%).

$407k
$399k
$667k
$1.2M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.4M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 43% · 2019 41% · 2023 32% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of CRISTOSAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$162k
’17
$141k
’18
$128k
’19
$321k
’20
$709k
’21
$369k
’22
−$1.5M
’23
−$256k
’24
1.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Noah F Bullock

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1515131516151618
Joined·+1+6+9+8+0+8+3
No longer listed·1877171
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $66k → $1.1M.

11 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CRISTOSAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CRISTOSAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CRISTOSAL INC.

31%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 52% · 2019 37% · 2020 68% · 2021 67% · 2022 50% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

46% of CRISTOSAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

CRISTOSAL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 9 states in all.

MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
CA
MD
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CRISTOSAL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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In Vermont

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 29 states

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NJ
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VA
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRISTOSAL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CRISTOSAL INC?
CRISTOSAL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,321,144 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,670,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CRISTOSAL INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $5,321,144 in grants to CRISTOSAL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRISTOSAL INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,670,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRISTOSAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing