· Public charity
Chapin Davis Foundation Inc
To provide charitable giving to the community to foster support of exempt organizations' activities
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| League for People with Disabilities | $20,000 |
| Outer Banks Community Church | $14,784 |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | $10,000 |
| Goucher College | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UBUNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH OF BALTIMORE2× · 2019–2020 · $568k · revenue +14% · 26% of their budget
- TLTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +58%
- GCGOUCHER COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SCSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INCone grant, 2020 · $226k · revenue +42%
- GPGRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $50k
- ECEASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOISone grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue -7%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 UNIVERSITY BAPTIST CHURCH OF BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds STRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SERVANT GROUP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chapin Davis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chapin Davis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- Washington College: 0% of income from government
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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