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Chaparral 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.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$685kEducation$355kArts & Culture$180kPhilanthropy$105kReligion$99kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kInternational$41kHuman Services$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$1,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULANE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$30,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SCHOOL$10,000
THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER$10,000
FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC$10,000
POSITIVE CIRCLE$5,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL$3,600
ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL$2,700
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$2,500
LSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION$2,500
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,500
FLYER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$1,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$1,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTH LOUISIANA$1,000
FLEET PARK LITTLE LEAGUE INC$500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SHREVEPORT$200
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POSITIVE CIRCLE: $5k → 8%THE DENVER HOSPICE: $100 → 12%CLUBCORP EMPLOYEE PARTNER ASSISTANCE FUND: $3k → 14%THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER: $20k → 22%THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER: $10k → 22%THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER: $10k → 22%THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER: $10k → 22%THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER: $10k → 22%THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER: $10k → 22%THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER: $10k → 22%THE ARC OF CADDO BOSSIER: $10k → 22%YMCA OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA: $100 → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WY
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.
$1.5M · 30 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
41

Total granted

$1.5M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+31%

Still filing today

37%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • FP
    FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +15%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    5× · 2017–2021 · $95k · revenue +72%
  • TA
    THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CC
    CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +63%
  • SL
    SCI-PORT LOUISIANA'S SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • PF
    PKD Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -15%
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
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
5
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
6
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
7
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
8
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
11
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
12
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eye Samaritans International. 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

40 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. 40 of the 80 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $573,000 · OtherLSU HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SCHOOL: $116,950 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SCHOOLTULANE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $95,000 · OtherTULANE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL: $90,400 · OtherST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL+47 more: $140,159 · Other+47 moreBuffalo Bill Memorial Association: $177,500 · Arts & CultureBuffalo Bill…+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $95,000 · EducationLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $96,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA: $8,850 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyTHE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $90,200 · Human ServicesPositive Circle: $5,000 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $5,000 · Human Services+6 more: $3,250 · Human ServicesEYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $40,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $2,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,100 · Health+8 more: $5,100 · HealthNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $11,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,015,509Arts & Culture$179,000Education$107,000Philanthropy$105,450Human Services$103,450Health$50,200Food & Nutrition$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association: $177,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $96,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $90,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL: $40,500 over 3y, 39% of budgetCENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA: $8,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Circle: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLUBCORP EMPLOYEE PARTNER ASSISTANCE FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor University Medical Center: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBe the Difference Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBBI THOMAS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLEET PARK LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBINSONS RESCUE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY ANGELS RESIDENTIAL FACILITY I: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Northwest Louisiana: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPTION GUILD OF SOUTHERN ORANGE COUNTY: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Buffalo Bill Memorial Association ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER ↗
  • Who funds EYE SAMARITANS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Positive Circle ↗
  • Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLUBCORP EMPLOYEE PARTNER ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS & NORTH LOUISIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
  • Who funds Baylor University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Be the Difference Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Powers Foundation…The Aaron or Peggy Se…Willis-Knighton Medic…Carolyn W & Charles T…American Electric Pow…The Scott FoundationCommittee of One Hund…Leonard & Betty Phill…Zadeck Family Foundat…Grayson Foundation IncArthur J Gallagher Fo…
Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · The Powers Foundation Inc · The Aaron or Peggy Selber Foundation In · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Scott Foundation · Committee of One Hundred Inc · Leonard & Betty Phillips Foundation · Zadeck Family Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation

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 Chaparral Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chaparral Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chaparral Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chaparral Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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