Connecticut · Private foundation
Chambers Family 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.
- $400k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Chambers Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $400k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $257k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $316k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $329k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $223k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $113k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $145k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $124k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer Alliance Inc | $140,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $137,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Camp Southern Ground Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| One by One | $90,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc | $88,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $77,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Blythedale Children's Hospital | $72,500 | 5 | 0% |
| National Foundation for Transplants Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($651k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chambers Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Chambers Family Foundation
- How much does Chambers Family Foundation give?
- Chambers Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $400,223 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Chambers Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Religion (10%), Education (8%).
- Who are Chambers Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Breast Cancer Alliance Inc ($140k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($137k), Camp Southern Ground Inc ($100k).
- Does Chambers Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chambers Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chambers Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Chambers Family Foundation based?
- Chambers Family Foundation is based in CT.
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