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Ch Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k
Granted FY2019
47
Grants FY2019
45
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$500
Largest grant, FY2019
$3,800
Organizations funded a year
45 to 72
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
11
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Ch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201945$36k100%
FY201872$57kn/a
40% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Recreation & Sports$21kEducation$16kScience & Tech$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
WV
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Moravian University$1,50010%
Lehigh University$1,50010%
Bucknell University$1,00010%
Fordham University$1,00010%
Muhlenberg College$1,00010%
Pennsylvania State University$1,0001n/a
University of Scranton$50010%
Centenary University$50010%
Ursinus College$50010%
Mercy University$50010%
Show all 24 grantees

Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ch Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMoravian University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLehigh University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuhlenberg College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentenary University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrsinus College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Richmond: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGettysburg College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork College of Pennsylvania: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Salle University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilkes University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMessiah University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSiena University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWidener University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Snayberger Memorial Fdn (Pf)NY13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Snayberger Memorial Fdn (Pf) · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Ch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ch Foundation 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.

About Ch Foundation

How much does Ch Foundation give?
Ch Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $36,800 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 72 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Ch Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (22%), Education (17%), Science & Tech (1%).
Who are Ch Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Moravian University ($2k), Lehigh University ($2k), Bucknell University ($1k).
Does Ch Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ch Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Snayberger Memorial Fdn (Pf), Verizon Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Ch Foundation based?
Ch Foundation is based in PA.

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 119 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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