· Private foundation
Chair 4 Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE | $37,225 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $13,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION | $11,225 |
| GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER | $9,750 |
| THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG PREVENTION | $7,500 |
| WEST HOLLYWOOD SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| MIDLAND SCHOOL | $6,250 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED CHAPTER 01 | $2,500 |
| USA-BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $2,500 |
| PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SWEETFEET | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- TCTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $118k · revenue +167%
- GWGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +24%
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- NGNORTH GEORGIA SOCCER ACADEMY INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +8%
- JNJEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MIMingei International Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +46%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Sweetfeet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 32 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 THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST HOLLYWOOD SHERIFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH GEORGIA SOCCER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds Mingei International Inc ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SWEETFEET ↗
- Who funds LAS PATRONAS ↗
- Who funds BOO2BULLYING INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED RECOVERY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Wilmac Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Chair 4 Foundation 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.
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
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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