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Chaffee Family Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VINCENT VILLAGE | $50,000 |
| ERINS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHER INDIANA | $25,000 |
| HARTFORD CITY COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| WELLS COUNTY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK-WC | $25,000 |
| WEST NOBLE FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| TURNSTONE | $25,000 |
| MONTPELIER COMMUNITY PANTRY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK-AC | $25,000 |
| HUMANE FORT WAYNE | $22,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY NE INDIANA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
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
- TCTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $386k · revenue +77%
- CHCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +12%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC6× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- MPMAUI PREP ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MMAKE-A-WISHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IIINDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +65%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turnstone Center for Children & Adults With Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Starr Gennett Foundation. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 67 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Indiana Base Community Council Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
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.
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
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 Chaffee Family Foundation 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.
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.
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