The Chrysanta Foundation focuses on a mix of place-based environmental conservation and direct social services that address urgent needs—particularly reproductive health/access to abortion, cancer patient and family support, and services for survivors of domestic violence and poverty. Grants tend to be sizable awards to mission-driven nonprofits across several regions (Northeast hotspots plus scattered national giving), and the foundation frequently makes repeated, multi-grant investments in certain organizations. Its portfolio blends conservation (trails, watersheds, urban waterways) with frontline human services and power-building for reproductive and health justice.
Chrysanta Foundation’s recent giving shows a strong blend of environmental conservation and direct support for women, families, and survivors. One of its largest recent awards went to Wissahickon Trails in Ambler, Pennsylvania, with $100,000 for its mission, alongside repeated support for watershed and canal organizations in New York and Massachusetts. The foundation also backs reproductive health and abortion access, including grants to Brigid Alliance in New York and Abortion Care Tennessee in Knoxville. On the human-services side, its grants have reached groups serving families affected by cancer, single mothers after childbirth, and people facing domestic violence or housing instability. The portfolio is not limited to one issue or one type of nonprofit. It includes operating support, mission support, and project-oriented funding for U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organizations. Recent awards also reached food-system work in Oregon and community arts programming in Massachusetts, showing that the foundation funds both urgent services and place-based community work. Within that mix, several organizations appear more than once across different years, suggesting an ongoing relationship with selected grantees rather than one-off awards.
On environmental conservation, Chrysanta Foundation has supported watershed, trail, and urban waterway groups. Recent examples include $80,000 to Gowanus Canal Conservancy in Brooklyn for its missions and $80,000 to The Charles River Watershed Association in Boston for the same purpose. It also gave $75,000 and $75,010 in two earlier grants to Wissahickon Trails in Ambler. In reproductive health and abortion access, the foundation backed Brigid Alliance in New York with $80,000 to help with costs for those seeking abortions, and it gave $60,000 to Abortion Care Tennessee in Knoxville to increase access to reproductive and sexual health care, including safe abortion. Its family-support grants also extend to cancer and maternal health. Sophia Fund received $90,000 to help families in their fight against cancer, financially and beyond, while Moms for Moms NYC received $50,000 and $40,000 for postpartum and newborn essentials.
Typical grants cluster in the mid-five-figure range: the 25th percentile is $15,000, the median is $40,000, and the 75th percentile is $55,000. That places many awards in a band that can support operating, project, or capacity needs without being microgrants. The foundation is an annual grantmaker and accepts unsolicited applications through its annual programs. Its structure favors U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organizations, and the recent record shows repeated grants to some recipients across multiple years, indicating ongoing support rather than only one-time awards. It also makes grants for general operating, project-specific, seed/startup, and capital expenditures.
$3.2M
$62.6M
$23.1M
$3.7M
Most grants fall between $15K and $55K, with a median of $40K.
25th Percentile
$15K
Median
$40K
75th Percentile
$55K
About 14% of grants go to recipients in NY.
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Concentrated, moderate-to-large gifts with several repeat grantees; mixes multi-year or multiple awards to core organizations with selective one-off grants across regions. Funding skews toward operational/general support and mission-driven program funding rather than small, exploratory grants.
Notable grantees: Wissahickon Trails, Brigid Alliance, Sophia Fund, Laurel House, Charles River Watershed Association
Chrysanta Foundation’s giving is regional but reaches across the United States. New York appears most often in the recent record, with grants to Brooklyn, New York City, Bridgehampton, and other New York recipients. Pennsylvania is also a major recipient state, accounting for 22% of grants, with awards to Ambler, Norristown, Philadelphia, and Gwynedd Valley. Other repeated recipient locations include Boston, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Charleston, West Virginia. All recent grants in the provided list went to U.S. recipients.
Yes. Its annual grant programs are listed as accepting unsolicited applications, and the programs support U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organizations working on women’s issues and local environmental conservation.
The foundation’s grant sizes are centered in the mid-five-figure range. The 25th percentile is $15,000, the median is $40,000, and the 75th percentile is $55,000.
Its recent grants support environmental conservation, reproductive health and abortion access, cancer-related family support, domestic violence services, maternal and newborn support, poverty alleviation, food and farm networks, and some community arts programming.
Yes. The grant record includes multiple awards to the same recipients across different years, including Wissahickon Trails, Laurel House, Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Moms for Moms NYC, and The Charles River Watershed Association.
New York is the top state by grant count in the recent data. Pennsylvania is also significant, with 22% of grants going to recipients in the HQ state.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wissahickon Trails | Ambler, PA | $150,000 | 2026 | Help with its missions. |
| Triplex Cinema Inc | Great Barrington, MA | $150,000 | 2026 | To provide entertainment, artistic, and educational opportunities to the local community and general public through film and cinema, including without limitation independent, commercial, foreign language, and classic films. |
| The Charles River Watershed Associa | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 2026 | To assist with its missions. |
| Sophia Fund | Cincinnati, OH | $100,000 | 2026 | To help families in their fight against cancer, financially and beyond. |
| Hamptons Community Outreach | Bridgehampton, NY | $100,000 | 2026 | To lift people out of poverty and reduce human suffering by meeting their most basic and critical needs, and by creating opportunities that change the life trajectories for our marginalized neighbors. |
| The Ryan Residency Training Program | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 2026 | To increase and strengthen training opportunities in abortion and contraception for residents in obstetrics and gynecology. |
| Greater Philadelphia YMCA | Conshohocken, PA | $100,000 | 2026 | To connect people to healthier lives - in mind, body and spirit. |
| Change Today Change Tomorrow | Louisville, KY | $100,000 | 2026 | To help eradicate barriers that disproportionately impact black communitites. |
| Henrys Fork Foundation | Ashton, ID | $100,000 | 2026 | To conserve, protect and restore the unique fisheries, wildlife and aesthetic qualities of the Henry's Fork and its connected watersheds. |
| Pushing Forward | Louisville, KY | $90,000 | 2026 | To respond to the needs of individuals who have experienced traumatic spinal cord injuries. |
| Western New York Land Conservacy | East Aurora, NY | $85,000 | 2026 | To permanently protect land with signficant conservation value in Western New York for the benefit of future generations. |
| Laurel House | Norristown, PA | $80,000 | 2026 | Assist with general operations |
| Gowanus Canal Conservancy | Brooklyn, NY | $80,000 | 2026 | To help with its missions. |
| GASP Inc | Birmingham, AL | $75,000 | 2026 | To enhance the health and well being of Alabamians by reducing air pollution, advancing environmental jusitce and promoting climate solutions through education, advocacy and collaboration. |
| Upper Gila Watershed Associates | Silver City, NM | $75,000 | 2026 | To promote the long-term health of the Upper Gila Watershed and its communities of life through advocacy, education, research and restoration projects. |
| High Desert Food and Farm Alliance | Bend, OR | $75,000 | 2026 | To help support a healthy and thriving food and farm network in Central Oregon through education, collaboration and inclusion. |
| Arkansas Abortion Support Network | Little Rock, AR | $65,000 | 2026 | To empower Arkansans in their right to bodily autonomy and reduce barriers to abortion access by providing funding, resources and judgment free options counseling. |
| Abortion Care Tennessee | Knoxville, TN | $60,000 | 2026 | To help build power for Tennesseans by increasing access to reproductive and sexual health care, including safe abortion for all people. |
| Redemptorist Social Services Center | Kansas City, MO | $60,000 | 2026 | To prevent a temporary crisis from becoming a permanent tragedy. |
| Single Mothers Striving for Success | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | 2026 | To build better futures for single mothers and their families. |
| Alaska Native Womens Resource Cente | Fairbanks, AK | $50,000 | 2026 | To strengthen local, tribal government responses to domestic and sexual violence. |
| Black Mothers In Power | Wilmington, DE | $50,000 | 2026 | To help dismantle systems of power to eradicate the racial health disparities that harm Black birthing people and Black babies throughout Delaware - while building new systems of care, healing, and power |
| Montana Abortion Access Program | Missoula, MT | $50,000 | 2026 | To protect and foster reproductive autonomy by providing access to abortion care through financial, logistical and emotional support. |
| Giving Austin Labor Support | Austin, TX | $50,000 | 2026 | To provide emotional, physical and informational support to udner-supported birthing people and healthcare professionals. |
| SafeQuest Solano | Fairfield, CA | $50,000 | 2026 | To help provide prevention education, advocacy, and intervention services to those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. |
| Gently Hugged | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 2026 | To collect and distribute new and gently used baby clothing and blankets to babies in need, ensuring they are warmly clothed during their crucial first year of life. |
| Journi For Two | Tampa, FL | $50,000 | 2026 | To help ensure that every mother battling cancer is embraced with compassion, strength, and the unwavering belief that they are never alone. |
| Empowherment | Clearwater, FL | $50,000 | 2026 | To empower all women to thrive by fostering skills and resources needed to obtain financial, mental and emotional self-sufficiency. |
| 3 Sisters Garden Project | Ipswich, MA | $50,000 | 2026 | To nurture and promote a sustainable community through sustainable land stewardship, food and farm-based community engagement and education. |
| New Moms | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 2026 | To strengthen families by partnering with young moms and they progress towards housing stability, economic mobility and family well-being. |
| Fort Greene Park Conservancy | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 2026 | To provide programming, maintenance and advocacy to protect everyone's right to belong, organize and connect with nature, ensuring the park thrives for all generations to come. |
| New York Abortion Access Fund | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2026 | To make abortion accessible to anyone living in or traveling to New York through direct funding, holistic support and trusted connections. |
| Moms for Moms NYC | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 2026 | To help support single mothers in need with postpartum and newborn essentials. |
| NWCAVE | Vancouver, WA | $50,000 | 2026 | Have a dream...a world without violence. |
| Lets Go Compost | Scottsdale, AZ | $50,000 | 2026 | To revolutionize waste management, reduce landfill waste and combat harmful greenhouse gases by providing free bins and K-12 STEAM curriculum to schools and communities. |
| Wilcox Little Angels | Miramar, FL | $50,000 | 2026 | To support families who have faced the loss of an infant child up to one year of age. |
| Environmental Health Coalition | National City, CA | $40,000 | 2026 | To achieve environmental and social justice. |
| 305 Pink Pack | Coral Gables, FL | $40,000 | 2026 | To help provide transportation, child care, and more at no cost, for local women in cancer treatment so they can focus on treatment and spend time with their families. |
| GIRL | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 2026 | To inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold. |
| Community Outreach through Radical | Eugene, OR | $40,000 | 2026 | To support, empower and advocate for young people. |
| Kindle Hill Foundation | Gwynedd Valley, PA | $40,000 | 2026 | Assist with construction of Control Tactics Studio. |
| Warriors and Quiet Waters Foundation Inc | Bozeman, MT | $39,000 | 2026 | Help veterans rekindle their love for the outdoors. |
| Grow Native Massachusetts | Lexington, MA | $35,000 | 2026 | To help promote the use of native plants in Massachusetts to support local ecosystems and wildlife. |
| Connected Nest | Cranberry Twp, PA | $30,000 | 2026 | To provide trauma informed mental health and community support for parents navigating infertility, pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting. |
| City Growers | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 2026 | To help use urban agriculture to engage youth in experiential learning, nurturing a lifelong relationship to food, their health, and the natural world. |
| The Flow | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | 2026 | To provide discipleship programs that address addiction, offer tangible help to those who are homeless, and teach people to live in healthy, supportive relationships to build self-sustaining futures. |
| Alaska Community Action on Toxics | Anchorage, AK | $26,397 | 2026 | That everyone has a right to clean air, clean water and toxic-free food. |
| Delaware Bat Rehab Conservation | Smyrna, DE | $25,000 | 2026 | To care for injured and orphaned bats. |
| the chat | Loveland, OH | $25,000 | 2026 | To empower first generation and non-traditional students to transform their lives trhough post-secondary education. |
| SAILS | Laurel, MD | $20,000 | 2026 | To help improve the mental health and well-being of families who experience miscarriage, stillbirth, and other pregnancy losses. |
Triplex Cinema Inc
$150,000To provide entertainment, artistic, and educational opportunities to the local community and general public through film and cinema, including without limitation independent, commercial, foreign language, and classic films.
The Charles River Watershed Associa
$100,000To assist with its missions.
Sophia Fund
$100,000To help families in their fight against cancer, financially and beyond.
Hamptons Community Outreach
$100,000To lift people out of poverty and reduce human suffering by meeting their most basic and critical needs, and by creating opportunities that change the life trajectories for our marginalized neighbors.
The Ryan Residency Training Program
$100,000To increase and strengthen training opportunities in abortion and contraception for residents in obstetrics and gynecology.
To connect people to healthier lives - in mind, body and spirit.
To help eradicate barriers that disproportionately impact black communitites.
To conserve, protect and restore the unique fisheries, wildlife and aesthetic qualities of the Henry's Fork and its connected watersheds.
Pushing Forward
$90,000To respond to the needs of individuals who have experienced traumatic spinal cord injuries.
Western New York Land Conservacy
$85,000To permanently protect land with signficant conservation value in Western New York for the benefit of future generations.
To enhance the health and well being of Alabamians by reducing air pollution, advancing environmental jusitce and promoting climate solutions through education, advocacy and collaboration.
Upper Gila Watershed Associates
$75,000To promote the long-term health of the Upper Gila Watershed and its communities of life through advocacy, education, research and restoration projects.
High Desert Food and Farm Alliance
$75,000To help support a healthy and thriving food and farm network in Central Oregon through education, collaboration and inclusion.
Arkansas Abortion Support Network
$65,000To empower Arkansans in their right to bodily autonomy and reduce barriers to abortion access by providing funding, resources and judgment free options counseling.
Abortion Care Tennessee
$60,000To help build power for Tennesseans by increasing access to reproductive and sexual health care, including safe abortion for all people.
To prevent a temporary crisis from becoming a permanent tragedy.
Single Mothers Striving for Success
$50,000To build better futures for single mothers and their families.
Alaska Native Womens Resource Cente
$50,000To strengthen local, tribal government responses to domestic and sexual violence.
Black Mothers In Power
$50,000To help dismantle systems of power to eradicate the racial health disparities that harm Black birthing people and Black babies throughout Delaware - while building new systems of care, healing, and power
Montana Abortion Access Program
$50,000To protect and foster reproductive autonomy by providing access to abortion care through financial, logistical and emotional support.
To provide emotional, physical and informational support to udner-supported birthing people and healthcare professionals.
SafeQuest Solano
$50,000To help provide prevention education, advocacy, and intervention services to those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault.
Gently Hugged
$50,000To collect and distribute new and gently used baby clothing and blankets to babies in need, ensuring they are warmly clothed during their crucial first year of life.
Journi For Two
$50,000To help ensure that every mother battling cancer is embraced with compassion, strength, and the unwavering belief that they are never alone.
Empowherment
$50,000To empower all women to thrive by fostering skills and resources needed to obtain financial, mental and emotional self-sufficiency.
To nurture and promote a sustainable community through sustainable land stewardship, food and farm-based community engagement and education.
To strengthen families by partnering with young moms and they progress towards housing stability, economic mobility and family well-being.
Fort Greene Park Conservancy
$50,000To provide programming, maintenance and advocacy to protect everyone's right to belong, organize and connect with nature, ensuring the park thrives for all generations to come.
New York Abortion Access Fund
$50,000To make abortion accessible to anyone living in or traveling to New York through direct funding, holistic support and trusted connections.
Moms for Moms NYC
$50,000To help support single mothers in need with postpartum and newborn essentials.
NWCAVE
$50,000Have a dream...a world without violence.
Lets Go Compost
$50,000To revolutionize waste management, reduce landfill waste and combat harmful greenhouse gases by providing free bins and K-12 STEAM curriculum to schools and communities.
Wilcox Little Angels
$50,000To support families who have faced the loss of an infant child up to one year of age.
To achieve environmental and social justice.
305 Pink Pack
$40,000To help provide transportation, child care, and more at no cost, for local women in cancer treatment so they can focus on treatment and spend time with their families.
GIRL
$40,000To inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.
To support, empower and advocate for young people.
Kindle Hill Foundation
$40,000Assist with construction of Control Tactics Studio.
Help veterans rekindle their love for the outdoors.
Grow Native Massachusetts
$35,000To help promote the use of native plants in Massachusetts to support local ecosystems and wildlife.
Connected Nest
$30,000To provide trauma informed mental health and community support for parents navigating infertility, pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting.
To help use urban agriculture to engage youth in experiential learning, nurturing a lifelong relationship to food, their health, and the natural world.
The Flow
$30,000To provide discipleship programs that address addiction, offer tangible help to those who are homeless, and teach people to live in healthy, supportive relationships to build self-sustaining futures.
That everyone has a right to clean air, clean water and toxic-free food.
Delaware Bat Rehab Conservation
$25,000To care for injured and orphaned bats.
the chat
$25,000To empower first generation and non-traditional students to transform their lives trhough post-secondary education.
SAILS
$20,000To help improve the mental health and well-being of families who experience miscarriage, stillbirth, and other pregnancy losses.