· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| DENNIS POLICE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THE SAMPSON FUND | $1,000 |
| YMCA CAPE COD | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +56% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chamberlain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chamberlain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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