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Chamberlain Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE & ISLANDS COUNCIL BSA | $15,000 |
| LATHAM CENTERS | $15,000 |
| THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $5,000 |
| DENNIS FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF HARWICH DENNIS GOOD WORKS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DENNIS POLICE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,000 |
| THE SAMPSON FUND | $1,000 |
| YMCA CAPE COD | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TFTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +91%
- LCLATHAM CENTERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +58%
- CCCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY8× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- TCTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +56%
- WDWEST DENNIS FREE PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $3k
- WDWEST DENNIS LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
To establish and operate a maritime museum and visitor hospitality center near hyannis harbor, in hyannis, massachusetts, and to conduct such other activities and programs in furtherance of the foregoing purposes.
The mission of the cape and islands united way inc is to increase the organized capacity for people on cape cod and the islands to care for one another and to improve the human condition of the region.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.
Cape cod chamber of commerce advocates on behalf of business to strenghten and promote regional economic vitality while addressing related cultural, environmental & community concerns.
The organization is responsible for overseeing all publicly funded vocational education and training programs for the cape cod, martha's vineyard, and nantucket areas.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
Sustain, support and stimulate existing cape cod businesses; increase employment opportunities by attracting desirable businesses to cape cod; foster and promote communication between the community, local government, and the business…
It is our mission to be the premiere organization for training, exhibiting, and promoting the arts on cape cod.
Nami cape cod & the islands serves individuals and their families who are affected by the broad spectrum of mental illnesses and neurological disorders through support, education and advocacy, and promotes mental awareness for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Cod & Islands Council Inc Boy Scouts of America and the most unlike its peers is Forward Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds LATHAM CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YARMOUTH POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DENNIS FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF HARWICH DENNIS GOOD WORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds DENNIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · 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 Chamberlain 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Latham Centers Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% 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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