How much did CHAMBERLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of CHAMBERLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

middlesummitaspire richmondrichmond prepvalleyhills elementarypinole

2022

actionmiddlewest contracerritosummitaspire richmondpinole

2023

teacher gratitudecampteachstartedward charlesstudiofiveleadersdreamdiversity leadership

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1302 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1271 grants · $507k
$10k–50k19 grants · $341k
$50k–250k8 grants · $950k
$250k+4 grants · $1.2M

$300

Median grant

States reached

$84M

Total assets

Largest grants

S2C COLLECTIVE$383,919
WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$300,000
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY CHARTER COALITION$250,000
TFA BAY AREA$250,000
EDSOURCE$200,000
GO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$200,000
GO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$150,000
CA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION$125,000
OAKLAND ENROLLS$100,000
NEW LEADERS$75,000
TEACHSTARTEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$50,000
RIVET SCHOOLBAY AREA HYBRID COLLEGE INITIATIVE$50,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$45,000
NEW LEADERS APF$36,000
DIVERSITY IN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$35,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.3M · 226 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

226 repeat relationships — 139 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 814 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

226

960

Total granted

$7.3M

$885k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+84%

Still filing today

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $937k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther

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

AG
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $315k · revenue +438%
OE
OAKLAND ENROLLS
3× · 2022–2024 · $290k · revenue +25%
EB
EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
4× · 2021–2024 · $63k · revenue +142%

Funded once

FI
FAMILIES IN ACTION FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
one grant, 2022 · $170k
FI
FAMILIES IN ACTIONCONTRA COSTA COUNTY CHARTER COALITION
one grant, 2023 · $150k
AP
ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Pacific East Quality Education

YCIS Silicon Valley is a welcoming school community where all children from preschool through grade 8 are encouraged to find and follow their gifts as they learn in both Chinese and English. Our goal:to help our students become…

Education

California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education

California Assoc for Bilingual Education

Promote and Support Educational Excellence and Equity.

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Challenge Success

Challenge Success partners with schools, families, and communities to embrace a broad definition of success and implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning.

Education

The California Education Partners

Supporting learning and collaboration between california's school districts and their partners to improve student success.

Education

Kipp Bay Area Schools

Kipp bay area schools prepares students with skills and confidence for their future.

Education

Oakland Kids First

Oakland Kids First is a community-based nonprofit in Oakland, CA that empowers young people to reimagine broken systems and organize for equitable public schools by providing youth leadership development, youth organizing, and community…

Youth Development

The Berkeley School

A preschool-8th grade independent school whose mission is to ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts, and engage a changing world.

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Learning Policy Institute

To conduct independent, high-quality research to improve learning for each and every child.

Education

Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative

A california public charter school which serves grades kindergarten through five.

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Alameda Education Foundation

AEF serves as a critical bridge toward equitable and inclusive educational outcomes for Alameda TK-12 public school students.

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Yuba River Charter School

Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Promise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aim High. 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 16 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/75

the rest of the field

11%

3,459/31,548

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.

05the grantee network

67 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/67

Grantees still filing

50/67

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,315,369Education$3,024,500Membership Benefit$250,000Human Services$161,000Youth Development$154,500Arts & Culture$123,000Health$72,500

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.

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.

Chamberlin Family PhilanthropyCA63.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chamberlin Family Philanthropy · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Endowment · Marin Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The James Irvine Foundation · S H Cowell Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Quest Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable

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 organisation CHAMBERLIN EDUCATION 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: S2C COLLECTIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +75% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 854207799 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on S2C COLLECTIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chamberlin Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chamberlin Education Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHAMBERLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

67 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chamberlin Education Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CHAMBERLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

67 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chamberlin Education Foundation?

More from the funding graph