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Aldus H Chapin Fam Char Fund at a glance

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Aldus H Chapin Fam Char Fund

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.

$24k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$7k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$31kEducation$26kHealth$14kYouth Development$12kArts & Culture$11kCrime & Legal$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$363k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEMPSEY CENTER$7,000
PROUT'S NECK ASSOCIATION$5,000
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$2,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN$2,500
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$2,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$1,000
MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION$1,000
MIDDLESEX SCHOOL$800
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$700
MAINE INITIATIVES$500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$500
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$300
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $1k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $1k → 7%REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM: $1k → 7%REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM: $500 → 7%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

ME
NY
MA
CT
MD
DC
AL
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 17 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$103k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+81%

Still filing today

71%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • PN
    PROUTS NECK ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +108%
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +213%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -79%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
3
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
4
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
10
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

—
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Maine; the most unlike its peers is Briya Public Charter School. 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 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROUTS NECK ASSOCIATION: $15,800 · OtherPROUTS NECK ASSOCIATIONBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN: $12,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERNJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYPROUTS NECK CONSERVANCY: $5,250 · OtherPROUTS NECK CONSERVANCYGood Shepherd Food Bank: $4,500 · OtherGood Shepherd Food BankMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $2,000 · Other+7 more: $5,750 · Other+7 moreMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $8,800 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHO…BRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationBRIYA PUBLIC C…Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care: $8,000 · HealthDempsey Cente…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINE: $3,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH F…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANC…WORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $9,500 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER A…Portland Museum of Art: $1,200 · Arts & CulturePortland Mu…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $700 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSE…Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $10,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coa…MAINE INITIATIVESINC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 · Crime & LegalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · International
Other$56,300Education$14,800Health$14,000Arts & Culture$11,400Environment$10,000Crime & Legal$5,500International$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROUTS NECK ASSOCIATION: $15,800 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $8,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MAINE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEE BURN CADDY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania: $200 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.

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 IncMaine Community Found…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way IncME13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Aldus H Chapin Fam Char Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aldus H Chapin Fam Char Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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