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Chanel Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MInternational$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kEducation$245kHuman Services$60kHealth$35kPhilanthropy$25kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$100,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC$50,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$50,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$30,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$25,000
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25k → 9%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $50k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE: $10k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100k → 14%PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $30k → 5%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $20k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $50k → 14%PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $25k → 5%FRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURES LA: $5k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $20k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $50k → 14%PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $20k → 5%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $50k → 14%PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $20k → 5%PPFA: $5k → 17%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%BROADER WAY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%BROADER WAY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $25k → 17%THEATREWORKS USA: $355k → 17%THEATREWORKS USA: $300k → 17%THEATREWORKS USA: $285k → 17%THEATREWORKS USA: $250k → 17%THEATREWORKS USA: $150k → 17%THEATREWORKS USA: $150k → 17%THEATREWORKS USA: $75k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $30k → 17%THEATREWORKS USA: $25k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $10k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $20k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $10k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $20k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $10k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $20k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $60k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $60k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $50k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $50k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $50k → 17%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$2.5M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+4%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +81%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +57%
  • PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $95k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TF
    The Frick Collection
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -27%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +4%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -59%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of the Musee Dorsay; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THEATREWORKS USA CORPORATION: $1,590,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATREWORKS USA CORPORATIONFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $30,000 · Arts & CultureInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHE…CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationCORNELL UNI…PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $95,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EX…Cornell University: $50,000 · EducationCornell Uni…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD…LITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $60,000 · OtherThe Frick Collection: $25,000 · OtherBROADER WAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $35,000 · HealthCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,840,000International$500,000Education$270,000Other$95,000Health$35,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHEATREWORKS USA CORPORATION: $1,590,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $150,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCornell University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RESIDENTIAL TREASURESLA: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chanel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chanel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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