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Chamberlin Family Philanthropy

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.

$588k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$38MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$747kFood & Nutrition$165kHuman Services$157kHealth$142kEnvironment$88kCrime & Legal$73kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATER$100,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
FOOD BANK OF CC & SOLANO COUNTY$50,000
PTA HI CONGRESSAIKAHI PTA$13,000
VACAVILLE SOLANO SERVICES (OPPORTUNITY HOUSE)$10,000
KALAHEO HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
VACAVILLE SOLANO SERVICES (OPPORTUNITY HOUSE)$10,000
JELLY'S PLACE$10,000
EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
3LS THE ACADEMY (PHILANTHOPIC VENTURES)$10,000
LA MISION CHILDREN'S FUND$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $3k → 9%MAITRI: $5k → 10%IFOSTER INC: $3k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%THE GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING LOSS: $3k → 10%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES FUND: $3k → 14%AFFECT REAL CHANGE INC: $8k → 24%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $3k → 9%IFOSTER INC: $3k → 11%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $3k → 9%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $3k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS: $5k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%AIM HIGH: $10k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $5k → 10%THE LATINA CENTER: $30k → 9%CHILDREN NOW: $3k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $10k → 10%EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS NETWORK: $4k → 10%GOODNESS VILLAGE: $4k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $3k → 10%BRIGHT FUTURES GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT CNTR: $20k → 9%DADS EVOKING CHANGE: $3k → 10%BRIGHT FUTURES GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT CNTR: $10k → 9%MONTHLY MIRACLES: $4k → 10%SUPPLY BANK: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
FL

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.

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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 121 repeat orgs$34M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

121 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 110 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
144

Total granted

$7.1M
$34M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

41%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $428k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HC
    Honolulu Civil Beat Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $710k · revenue +296%
  • EI
    EDSOURCE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $655k · revenue +17%
  • RI
    RYSE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $545k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CE
    CHAMBERLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $32M · revenue -90% · 52% of their budget
  • SS
    SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue -1%
  • GO
    GREAT OAKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $250k

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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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3
Go Public Schools

GO Public Schools builds and supports a multi-city network of local coalitions, whose members parents, educators, and community allies work together to expand access to quality education in Californias most historically underserved…

Education
4
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
5
Go Public Schools Advocates

Our mission is to activate the leadership of families, educators, and community allies to advocate on behalf of California children and youth to ensure that all students have access to excellent public schools in their neighborhoods and…

Education
6
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
7
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
8
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
9
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
10
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
11
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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12
The California Center for Civic Participation

To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Promise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chamberlin Education 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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%16%35–55yr13%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%85%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr11%2%35–55yr13%1%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/168
the rest of the field
14%
26,000/186,810

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.

04the grantee network

162 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. 162 of the 294 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/162
Grantees still filing
103/162
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHAMBERLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $31,937,284 · PhilanthropyCHAMBERLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION+4 more — $31,000 · PhilanthropyTeach for America Inc — $1,100,000 · EducationTeach for …EDSOURCE INC — $655,000 · EducationEDSOURCE I…CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $512,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA…SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC — $400,000 · EducationSILICON SC…BES INC — $350,000 · EducationBES INCNEW LEADERS INC — $155,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $132,150 · Education+23 more — $509,025 · Education+23 moreGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEST CONTRA COSTA — $1,100,000 · OtherGREAT OAKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $250,000 · OtherALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL — $240,000 · Other+124 more — $1,607,970 · OtherHonolulu Civil Beat Inc — $710,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $55,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 · Arts & CultureRichmond Art Center — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $34,500 · Arts & CultureRYSE INC — $545,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Life Project — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $25,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $20,500 · Youth DevelopmentBRIGHT FUTURES GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE LATINA CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Education Partnerships — $23,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $12,100 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH — $10,000 · Human ServicesAffect Real Change Inc — $8,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $8,000 · Human Services+7 more — $34,000 · Human ServicesEarly Childhood Mental Health Program — $40,000 · HealthJackson Orthopaedic Foundation — $19,900 · HealthFRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER — $15,000 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $15,000 · HealthTHROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS — $10,000 · HealthSide By Side — $8,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global — $5,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health
Philanthropy$31,968,284Education$3,813,175Other$3,197,970Arts & Culture$999,500Youth Development$618,000Human Services$175,100Health$117,900

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHAMBERLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $31,937,284 over 1y, 52% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHonolulu Civil Beat Inc — $710,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetEDSOURCE INC — $655,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetRYSE INC — $545,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — $512,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC — $400,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBES INC — $350,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $155,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $132,150 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAccelerate Institute — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRichmond Art Center — $50,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUrban Tilth — $42,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEarly Childhood Mental Health Program — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetRICHMOND PROMISE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LATINA CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLA MISION CHILDRENS FUND — $30,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCALIBER PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $28,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMindful Life Project — $27,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $25,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKELEY CHESS SCHOOL — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACSC Inc ACSC — $23,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCommunity Education Partnerships — $23,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Orthopaedic Foundation — $19,900 over 2y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT — $17,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIX OUR FERALS — $15,400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUSTICE IN MOTION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRED FINCH YOUTH CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CONTRA COSTA — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPTA HAWAII CONGRESS — $13,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCHIEFS FOR CHANGE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJELLYS PLACE — $12,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $12,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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 Education …East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Bernard E & Alba Witk…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…Dean and Margaret Les…The James Irvine Foun…Quest FoundationThe Morris Stulsaft F…The California Endowm…Tipping Point Communi…
Chamberlin Education FoundationCA75.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chamberlin Education Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Quest Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · The California Endowment · Tipping Point Community

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 Chamberlin Family Philanthropy 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Chamberlin Family Philanthropy?

Find your warmest path to Chamberlin Family Philanthropy through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 294 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines