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Chapman Family Foundation at a glance

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Chapman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.5M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$8.2MEducation$3.4MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHousing & Shelter$236kArts & Culture$37kCrime & Legal$35kAnimals$24kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 97% of reported assets are held in Barry Wehmiller Group Inc Stock.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chapman Family for Caring Communities$1,500,000
Clayton Community Foundation$33,020
Furnish For Good$25,000
Youthbridge Community Foundation$20,000
St Louis Zoo$7,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Youthbridge Community Foundation: $20k → 11%Youthbridge Community Foundation: $20k → 11%Youthbridge Community Foundation: $20k → 11%The Little Bit Foundation: $55k → 21%The Little Bit Foundation: $55k → 21%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

IL
NY
PA
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 10 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$3.7M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthReligionAnimalsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PL
    PHILLIPS LISTENS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +96% · 44% of their budget
  • CL
    CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +36%
  • FF
    Furnish For Good Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $111k · revenue +383%

Funded once

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity - Roaring Fork Valley
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TP
    The Pachamama Alliance
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • IA
    I am a Maker
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc

Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.

Animals
6
Pet Partners

Pet partners is the national leader in demonstrating and promoting positive human-animal interactions to improve the physical, emotional and psychological lives of those we serve.

Animals
7
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
8
American Physical Therapy Association

Building a community that advances the profession of physical therapy to improve the health of society.

Health
9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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10
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
11
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
12
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Phillips Listens Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 28 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)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $8,155,797 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyPHILLIPS LISTENS INC: $3,075,000 · EducationPHILLIPS LISTENS INCCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS: $150,000 · Education+2 more: $78,400 · EducationChapman Family for Caring Communities: $1,500,000 · OtherChapman Family…CrossRoads Corporation: $100,000 · OtherCrossRoads Cor…+13 more: $78,428 · OtherTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesFurnish For Good Inc: $111,000 · Housing & ShelterClayton Community Foundation: $36,530 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $35,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Philanthropy$8,156,297Education$3,303,400Other$1,678,428Human Services$170,000Housing & Shelter$111,000Community Improvement$37,530Health$35,500

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $8,155,797 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS LISTENS INC: $3,075,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFurnish For Good Inc: $111,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGATEWAY CHILDRENS CHARITY: $40,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetClayton Community Foundation: $36,530 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDAR CREEK THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION OF THE CENTRAL STATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKanakuk Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUO DOGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILING GOAT RANCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Commerce Bancshares F…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Chapman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chapman Family 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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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