About Chrest Foundation
The mission of Chrest Foundation is to create a more compassionate and just society and to steward our natural resources in a responsible way. We achieve our mission by concentrating our resources on endeavors that advance criminal justice reform and conserve and sustain the environment in the United States.
Focus Areas
Criminal justice reformPrison reform and re-entryDiversion and alternatives-to-incarcerationPolicy, research, and advocacyEnvironmental conservationProtection and enhancement of public green spacesNature-based climate solutionsRenewable energy and climate policy
Who They Fund
justice-involved people (adjudicated youth, pretrial detainees, formerly incarcerated)youth and young adults (schoolchildren benefiting from greenspace and diversion programs)
About Chrest Foundation
A defining feature of Chrest Foundation Inc is its consistent support for criminal justice reform alongside environmental conservation. Recent grants show a foundation backing data tools, policy research, and community-based advocacy on the justice side, while also funding land protection, public greenspace, and clean-energy transition work on the environmental side. The largest recent grants include repeated support for Recidiviz Inc, including $150,000 in 2024 and $150,000 in 2025 for data platforms that help justice-involved people transition back into their communities. On the policy and reform side, the foundation has also backed Texas Public Policy Foundation and Lone Star Justice Alliance, with grants tied to accountability, rehabilitation, and youth diversion. Environmental grants range from Colorado peak stewardship to Montana public-lands protection and Western climate mitigation. The pattern suggests a funder that favors organizations working at the systems level, often through research, evaluation, capacity building, and long-term partnerships. Its giving is national in scope, with a substantial share of grants landing in Texas and a strong presence in Colorado and Washington, DC.
What Chrest Foundation Funds
In criminal justice reform, Chrest Foundation Inc supports both policy work and service-oriented reform. It gave $150,000 to Texas Public Policy Foundation for accountability and rehabilitation in the criminal justice system, and $125,000 to Southern Methodist University for research on an intervention to reduce unnecessary pretrial detention. The foundation also backed Lone Star Justice Alliance with $125,000 for redirecting youth and young adults out of the Texas justice system and into community-based treatment programs. On the environment side, the foundation funds land conservation, public access, and climate work. It gave $100,000 to Trust for Public Land to increase greenspace in Colorado schoolyards and expand after-school access, and $100,000 to Western Resource Advocates to accelerate the transition to clean energy in the Western United States. Its conservation grants also reach protected lands and open spaces in Colorado and Montana.
How Chrest Foundation Gives
Chrest Foundation Inc’s recent grants cluster around a typical middle range of $50,000, with a 25th percentile of $38,292 and a 75th percentile of $100,000. The recent list shows many $100,000 awards, alongside a smaller set of $125,000 and $150,000 grants. The foundation appears to support some organizations across multiple years, including Recidiviz Inc, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Lone Star Justice Alliance, Trust for Public Land, Western Resource Advocates, and Conservation Colorado Education Fund. It is a regular funder rather than a donor-advised fund. The grant programs emphasize long-term partnerships, capacity building, evaluation, research support, and community-driven solutions, and one general grantmaking program accepts unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$1.4M
Total Assets
$37.8M
Total Revenue
$1.6M
Total Expenses
$1.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $38K and $100K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$38K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$100K
Geographic Reach
National8 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Chrest Foundation Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Chrest Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkey | 65 | $3.5M | 53.3% |
| 2 | United StatesDomestic | 57 |
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