Private foundation
Chanel Family 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.
- $275k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Chanel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $250k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $160k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $530k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $465k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $330k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $430k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $180k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $165k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theatreworks USA Corporation | $1,590,000 | 8 | 10% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $150,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cornell University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Frick Collection | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theatreworks USA Corporation | $1,590,000 | 8 | 10% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $150,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cornell University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Frick Collection | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Musee Dorsay | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Residential Treasuresla | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chanel 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Chanel Family Foundation
- How much does Chanel Family Foundation give?
- Chanel Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $275,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chanel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (68%), International (9%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%).
- Who are Chanel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Theatreworks USA Corporation ($1.6M), International Rescue Committee INC ($250k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($250k).
- Does Chanel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chanel 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 Chanel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
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