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Chaplin Family Foundation at a glance

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Chaplin Family 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.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
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 2024.

Education$214kArts & Culture$19kPhilanthropy$17k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC$3,000
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY$2,000
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE$2,000
THE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $500 → 17%COLLEGE OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $2k → 28%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%THE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 9%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%EAST LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $4k → 16%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%COLLEGE OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $2k → 28%THE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%THE JOSEPH W NUNN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 9%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $4k → 13%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - ANSWER: $8k → 8%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $3k → 16%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $6k → 9%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - ANSWER: $8k → 8%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $3k → 16%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $5k → 9%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $3k → 16%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $3k → 9%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $2k → 16%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $500 → 9%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $2k → 16%LESLEY UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $500 → 9%NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $2k → 16%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
VA
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Chaplin Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Chaplin Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$245k · 9 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$245k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+29%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $128k · revenue +8%
  • HU
    HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +22%
  • MC
    MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • EL
    EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +29%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +30%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +26%
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
5
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…

Education
6
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
7
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
8
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mount Saint Vincent; the most unlike its peers is The Mirasol Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $127,930 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · EducationHAMPTON UNIVERSITYMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $12,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE+3 more: $6,000 · EducationLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $37,000 · OtherLESLEY UNIVERSITYRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - ANSWER: $16,666 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION -…UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $14,700 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC+2 more: $1,000 · OtherNEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $18,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $1,625 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Education$157,930Other$69,366Arts & Culture$18,500Philanthropy$4,125

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 budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $127,930 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $18,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $14,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIRASOL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $1,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal FundCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY15.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Chaplin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chaplin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Newark School of the Arts: 18% of income from government
  • United Way of Greenwich Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lesley University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 15 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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