Indiana · Private foundation
Chaffee Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $283k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Chaffee Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $283k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $361k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $303k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $308k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $354k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $254k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $115k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $199k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc | $421,200 | 7 | 3% |
| Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc | $200,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Community and Family Services Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Liberty Youth Ranch Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Vincent Village Inc | $105,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Humane Fort Wayne Inc | $56,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Montpelier Community Pantry Inc | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Matthew 25 Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northeast Indiana Base Community Council Incorporated | $12,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($842k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chaffee Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Surack Family Foundation Inc · The James Foundation Inc · Magee-O'Connor Foundation Inc I/C/O Mr Douglas E Miller · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn
How this is measured
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About Chaffee Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Chaffee Family Foundation Inc give?
- Chaffee Family Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $283,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chaffee Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (28%), Health (27%), Human Services (22%).
- Who are Chaffee Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc ($421k), Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc ($200k), Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc ($200k).
- Does Chaffee Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chaffee Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chaffee Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Chaffee Family Foundation Inc based?
- Chaffee Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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