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Chaney Foundation Ltd

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.

$369k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$1.9MHousing & Shelter$151kYouth Development$79kHealth$53kEducation$28kFood & Nutrition$26kRecreation & Sports$8kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $243k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UM CHARLES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$47,500
FARMING 4 HUNGER$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHESAPEAKE$20,000
RAISING A READER$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ANNAPOLIS & AA COUNTY$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WICOMICO COUNTY$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB METRO RICHMOND$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RICHMOND$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB SOUTHEAST VA$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MD$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PENINSULAGREATER WILLIAMSBURG$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CENTRAL VIRGINIA$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB HIGH POINT NORTH CAROLINA$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 13% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SUSSEX COUNTY: $5k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DELAWARE: $5k → 10%HELLENIC COLLEGE INC: $2k → 7%RAISING A READER: $20k → 8%LIMB KINDS SHOW YOUR SHINE EVENT: $3k → 13%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CENTRAL CAROLINA: $5k → 16%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER GREENSBORO: $5k → 16%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PITT COUNTY: $5k → 20%GOOD SHEPHERD HOUSING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 6%CENTER FOR YOUTH & FAMILY ADVOCACY: $3k → 7%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FLUVANNA COUNTY: $5k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY STAUNTON-AUGUSTA-WAYNESBORO: $5k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CULPEPER: $5k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE: $10k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RICHMOND: $15k → 9%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB SOUTHEAST VA: $10k → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL VALLEY: $5k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY DANVILLE-PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY: $5k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER FREDERICKSBURG: $5k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PENINSULAGREATER WILLIAMSBURG: $10k → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $5k → 19%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EASTERN SHORE OF VA: $5k → 19%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY: $5k → 20%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB METRO RICHMOND: $15k → 22%IEC CHESAPEAKE APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAINING: $2k → 6%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $652k → 6%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MD: $10k → 8%FARMING 4 HUNGER: $25k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PATUXENT: $5k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHESAPEAKE: $20k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CENTRAL PLAINS: $5k → 20%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $444k → 6%UM CHARLES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $48k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WICOMICO COUNTY: $15k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $398k → 6%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $150k → 6%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $149k → 6%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $110k → 6%SPCA OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $4k → 6%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ANNAPOLIS & AA COUNTY: $20k → 6%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $15k → 6%FISH FOR A CURE: $3k → 6%ANNAPOLIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%DECARIS PROUT FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES RIVER'S EDGE PLAY FOREST: $5k → 6%SEVERN SCHOOL: $2k → 6%LACE EM UP LIBBY: $2k → 6%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

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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 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.

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Habitat for Humanity of Carroll County Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity of carroll county,…

Housing & Shelter
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Habitat for Humanity of Northern Va

Habitat for humanity of northern virginia brings our community together to build decent, affordable houses - and hope - for people in need. habitat provides a "hand up" to home ownership through sweat equity, donor generosity, volunteer…

3
Habitat for Humanity International Chemung County

Chemung county habitat is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access…

4
Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter
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Allegany Co Habitat for Humanity Inc

To provide financial and construction assistance to low-income individuals in building safe and adequate housing.

Housing & Shelter
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Habitat for Humanity Capital District Inc

To build simple, decent and affordable homes in partnership with lower income households. the organization builds houses with donated money, materials, and labor and sells the homes to its partner families, providing an affordable mortgage…

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Habitat for Humanity Prince William County

Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Habitat for Humanity York County Maine

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity york county adheres to…

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Habitat for Humanity of Washington and Dodge Counties Wisconsin Inc

Habitat for humanity of washington dodge counties, wisconsin, inc. is a locally-run affiliate of habitat for humanity international, a nonprofit ecumenical christian housing ministry. habitat for humanity works in partnership with people…

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Habitat for Humanity International Inc

Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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Habitat for Humanity of Berks County

Habitat for humanity of berks county, inc. (hfhbc) is a nonprofit 501c3 charitable organization that believes all people deserve a decent life & power to build their own futures. hfhbc exists to create affordable home ownership…

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Fauquier Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. our vision is "a world where everyone has a decent place to live." fauquier habitat adheres to a strict…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity City of Danville and Pittsylvania County and the most unlike its peers is Maryland Matters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Elementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersHomeless Services & ShelterAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCancer Support OrganizationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsPublic Library SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts OrganizationsEducation Equity LeadershipFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr16%17%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr11%41%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%94%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,818

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

30 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
17/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO — $1,918,399 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO+1 more — $2,200 · PhilanthropyUM CHARLES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER — $47,500 · OtherUM CHARLES R…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHESAPEAKE — $20,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ANNAPOLIS & AA COUNTY — $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIR…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY RICHMOND — $15,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB METRO RICHMOND — $15,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIR…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CENTRAL VIRGINIA — $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB SOUTHEAST VA — $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE — $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MD — $10,000 · Other+40 more — $102,884 · Other+40 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PENINSULA AND GREATER WILLIAMSBURG — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterGood Shepherd Housing & Family Services Inc — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CITY OF DANVILLE AND PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFARMING 4 HUNGER INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionRaising A Reader — $20,000 · EducationSEVERN SCHOOL INC — $2,000 · EducationIEC APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING INC — $1,500 · EducationANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,500 · EducationSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MD INC — $4,000 · AnimalsCenter For Youth and Family Advocacy — $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$1,920,599Other$260,384Housing & Shelter$45,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Education$25,000Animals$4,000Crime & Legal$2,500

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ANNE ARUNDEL CO — $1,918,399 over 7y, 19% of budgetFARMING 4 HUNGER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetRaising A Reader — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PENINSULA AND GREATER WILLIAMSBURG — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Housing & Family Services Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN THE ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CITY OF DANVILLE AND PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MD INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter For Youth and Family Advocacy — $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,200 over 1y, 46% of budgetLace 'Em Up for Libby Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSEVERN SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIEC APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $769 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Matters Inc — $525 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP HOWARD COUNTY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaring Cupboard LLC — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC ANNAPOLIS INC — $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS GREEN INC — $350 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERC INC — $325 over 1y, 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.

Community Foundation of Anne Arundel CoMD38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Habitat for Humanity International Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Edward Freitag & Martha Haley Fdn Inc · Rogers-Wilbur Foundation Inc · The Hand Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Give Back Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Chaney Foundation Ltd 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 23%
  • Farming 4 Hunger Inc100% of income from government
  • Historic Annapolis Inc45% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc33% of income from government
  • Sussex County Habitat for Humanity23% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc6% of income from government
  • Iec Apprenticeship & Training Inc2% of income from government
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc2% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Chaney Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to Chaney Foundation Ltd 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 64 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.

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