California · 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $532,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Chambers Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 21 | $1.8M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $2.4M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $4.4M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $4.4M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $4.2M | 56% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $4.3M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $10,697,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $6,800,000 | 7 | 2% |
| National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc | $1,400,000 | 6 | 0% |
| US India Friendship Alliance Inc | $1,137,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Case Western Reserve University | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Duke University | $700,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $550,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Leading for Kids | $375,000 | 5 | 71% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $350,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chambers Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Penner Family Foundation Inc · Akamai Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chambers Family Foundation
- How much does Chambers Family Foundation give?
- Chambers Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $3,399,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Chambers Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Health (32%), International (6%).
- Who are Chambers Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($11M), Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ($6.8M), National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc ($1.4M).
- Does Chambers Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% 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 Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Bright Funds Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Chambers Family Foundation based?
- Chambers Family Foundation is based in CA.
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