· Private foundation
Chapel Hill Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION | $15,800 |
| ADK MOUNTAIN CLUB | $15,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL | $11,000 |
| PLATTSBURGH YMCA | $10,000 |
| THERA PETS INC | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,310 |
| MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS | $5,000 |
| PLATTSBURG CARES | $5,000 |
| PENDRAGON THEATER | $5,000 |
| MOOERS FREE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| LAKE GEORGE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ADIRONDACK REGIONAL THEATRE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| PLATTSBURGH YOUTH HOCKEY | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +36%
- BPBRIGID PROJECT INC3× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +21%
- 1C1814 COMMEMORATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- JCJCEO CYCLING WITHOUT AGEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SLST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
- CCCLINTON COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
To maintain over 100 miles of cross country ski and mountain bike trails in the vicinity of lake placid, new york.
The Adirondack Park Institute raises funds to support program events at the Visitors Interpretive Center in Newcomb, New York.
To develop affordable low income housing and economic development projects in northern new york state.
Founded in 1859, the Ulster County Historical Society (UCHS) is the oldest county historical society in New York State. Housed at the historic Bevier House Museum, UCHS is dedicated to bringing Ulster Countys history alive through dynamic…
Provide nutrition, socialization, recreation, education and health related activities to elderly adults in tupper lake, ny.
The st. lawrence power & equipment museum preserves and teaches the history of how people of the north country of new york lived and how earlier technologies and events helped shape their lives. history comes alive through demonstrations,…
Preservation of Local History
How this is measured
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 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK REGIONAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF PLATTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CARE FOR THE ADIRONDACKS INC ↗
- Who funds PLATTSBURGH CARES INC ↗
- Who funds MOOERS FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BRIGID PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds 1814 COMMEMORATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HEART WELL HOMESTEAD INC ↗
- Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PLATTSBURGH YOUTH HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHAZY YOUTH HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds KENT-DELORD HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
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: Cloudsplitter Foundation · Adirondack Foundation · Charles R Wood Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chapel Hill Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chapel Hill Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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