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A Chancefund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$304k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$593kHealth$236kEmployment$171kFood & Nutrition$122kPhilanthropy$111kArts & Culture$82kEnvironment$60kYouth Development$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVID M SCHWARZ ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
BROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE$15,000
EMMA'S TORCH LTD$15,000
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$15,000
HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD$15,000
BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC$15,000
FRIENDS OF CAS INCORPORATED$15,000
THE POGIL PROJECT$15,000
ESSEX STREET ACADEMY PARENTS ASSOCIATION$15,000
FOOD EDUCATION FUND$15,000
ANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC$15,000
NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INCORPORATED$10,000
PROJECT NADIYA INCORPORATED$10,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC$10,000
ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $15k → 17%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $10k → 20%MEXICAN COALITION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $2k → 28%STREET GRACE INC: $1k → 9%THE GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $10k → 8%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $5k → 17%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $10k → 20%MEXICAN COALITION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $1k → 28%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $5k → 20%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $1k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH LTD: $15k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH LTD: $10k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH LTD: $10k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH LTD: $10k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH LTD: $10k → 20%EMMA'S TORCH LTD: $10k → 20%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $2k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $10k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $10k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $10k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $8k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CO
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$537k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
27

Total granted

$1.1M
$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+79%

Still filing today

81%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BN
    BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +37%
  • ET
    EMMA'S TORCH LTD
    6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +98%
  • HB
    HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD
    7× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • Vanderbilt Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +57%
  • TC
    THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue +26%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN'S COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
4
The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education
5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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8
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education
9
Technyc Inc

An engaged network of tech leaders working to foster a dynamic, diverse, and creative new york. we bring together new yorkers to support a successful technology ecosystem, attract and retain top-tier talent, and celebrate new york and the…

Community Improvement
10
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chinese-American Planning Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is David M Schwarz Architects Charitable Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%9%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr21%28%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr11%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%6%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%40%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr11%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
11%
5,527/49,029

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
30/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC — $120,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INCVanderbilt University — $100,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityESSEX STREET ACADEMY PARENT ASSOCIATION — $57,500 · EducationESSEX STREET ACADEMY PARENT AS…FOOD EDUCATION FUND INC — $57,000 · EducationFOOD EDUCATION FUND INCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $55,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AME…ST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $28,000 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGETHE POGIL PROJECT — $15,000 · Education+2 more — $14,200 · EducationYALE UNIVERSITY — $258,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $30,000 · OtherSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC — $43,000 · OtherANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INCEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC — $30,000 · OtherBROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE — $30,000 · OtherHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $25,000 · Other+23 more — $161,867 · Other+23 moreEMMA'S TORCH LTD — $65,000 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH…HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $63,000 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KI…THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAMPAIGN…GIVEDIRECTLY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY…The GenderCool Project — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesDAVID M SCHWARZ ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyDAVID M SCH…Friends of CAS — $52,500 · PhilanthropyFriends of …ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD …GLSEN INC — $81,700 · Civil RightsGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $10,000 · Civil RightsMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $55,000 · Arts & CultureSUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING — $15,000 · Arts & CultureOrchestra of the Americas Group Inc — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 · InternationalProject Nadiya Incorporated — $15,000 · InternationalPeace Development Fund — $10,000 · International
Education$446,700Other$607,867Human Services$190,000Philanthropy$162,500Civil Rights$111,700Arts & Culture$81,000International$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK INC — $120,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetDAVID M SCHWARZ ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetVanderbilt University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLSEN INC — $81,700 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD — $65,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $63,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetESSEX STREET ACADEMY PARENT ASSOCIATION — $57,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC — $57,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of CAS — $52,500 over 6y, 25% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANNE SAXELBY LEGACY FUND INC — $43,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY ACTION FUND INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN GREENWAY INITIATIVE — $30,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUGAR HILL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ART AND STORYTELLING — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetProject Nadiya Incorporated — $15,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE POGIL PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSLOW FOOD CO-DENVER — $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOrchestra of the Americas Group Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPeace Development Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe GenderCool Project — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $5,049 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPS 31 BROOKLYN PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION INC — $4,200 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFRESHFARM MARKETS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEXICAN COALITION FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH AND FAMILIES — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MANHATTAN CHORAL ENSEMBLE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetStreet Grace Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lily Auchincloss Foun…Brooklyn Community Fo…Robin Hood FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The New York Communit…Research Foundation o…Altman FoundationThe Ford FoundationMother Cabrini Health…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…
Lily Auchincloss Foundation IncNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Research Foundation of the City University of New York · Altman Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization A Chancefund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • St John's College — 2% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
13report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to A Chancefund Inc?

Find your warmest path to A Chancefund Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines