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Chapman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$643k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$555kEducation$474kCommunity Improvement$424kReligion$258kPhilanthropy$220kHousing & Shelter$163kYouth Development$150kHealth$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $385k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAYLOR UNIVERSITY$100,000
DENVER INSTITUTE FOR FAITH AND WORK$75,000
FOR EVANSVILLE INC$60,000
COOPER HOUSE INC$50,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC$50,000
FORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC$50,000
YOUTH FIRST INC$35,000
IMPACT EVANSVILLE INC$33,780
OAKLAND CITY UNIVERSITY$30,000
EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC$25,000
EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC$25,000
CARMEL CLAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$20,000
LOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC$20,000
CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH$15,000
AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG INC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $487k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG INC: $20k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC: $50k → 12%AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG INC: $15k → 9%AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG INC: $10k → 9%SAME AS U INC: $35k → 5%AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG INC: $10k → 9%SAME AS U INC: $15k → 5%COOPER HOUSE INC: $61k → 5%COOPER HOUSE INC: $59k → 5%COOPER HOUSE INC: $50k → 5%COOPER HOUSE INC: $39k → 5%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $25k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $25k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $25k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER: $15k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER: $10k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $5k → 15%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YMCA) OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $3k → 15%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YMCA) OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $3k → 15%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YMCA) OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $3k → 15%AURORA INC: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of Chapman Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 93% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Chapman Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 28 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
14

Total granted

$2.0M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+27%

Still filing today

89%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FE
    For Evansville Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $391k · revenue +30% · 29% of their budget
  • TC
    The Cooper House Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $214k · revenue +810%
  • TD
    The Denver Institute
    3× · 2022–2024 · $141k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AI
    ALLIANCE INITIATIVES FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -96%
  • IA
    INDIANA AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Evansville Christian School Inc

Evansville christian school exists to empower students to embrace a biblical worldview through spiritual and academic growth, servant leadership, and authentic relationships in the name of jesus christ.

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2
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Foundation Inc

To support the charitable, educational and other exempt purposes of the indiana united methodist children's home, inc.

Philanthropy
3
Elevate Indianapolis Inc

Our mission is to build long-term, life-changing relationships with Indianapolis urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community

Education
4
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Inc

To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…

Human Services
5
Evansville Regional Economic Partnership Foundation

Promote business growth and activities in evansville, indiana.

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6
Interfaith Action of Evanston

Inspired by diverse faiths and shared values, interfaith action of evanston brings people together to serve hungry and homeless people. pursue interfaith dialogue, and engage in advocacy that promotes social justice for those whom we serve.

Philanthropy
7
Hope of Evansville Inc

To provide counseling and assisstance with housing needs for clients located in the evansville, in area under guidelines established by the housing and urban development provisions.

Housing & Shelter
8
Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc
Food & Nutrition
9
Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity

To construct, rehabilitate, sell and finance (0% interest) homes to families in the Wabash Valley, who would otherwise not be able to obtain home loans through conventional means.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Susie's Place promotes the prevention, justice and healing of child victims of abuse and violence while maintaining the comfort and safety of the child as the first priority.

Youth Development
11
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
12
Kiddie Kare Ministry & Preschool Co

The organization exists to provide safe and reliable child care services for inner city residents of evansville, in in a christian environment.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Southwestern Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carmel-Clay Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%6%<5yr14%19%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr10%19%35–55yr18%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%31%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr10%8%35–55yr18%31%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
12%
1,372/11,149

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

For Evansville Inc — $390,800 · ReligionFor Evansville IncThe Denver Institute — $140,500 · ReligionThe Denver InstituteThe Potter's Wheel Inc — $60,800 · ReligionThe Potter's Wheel Inc+3 more — $42,000 · Religion+3 moreThe Cooper House Inc — $214,000 · Human ServicesThe Cooper House IncEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN L…Americas Kids Belong — $55,000 · Human ServicesAmericas Kids BelongSAME AS U INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSAME AS U INCFORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN CHILDREN WOR…+3 more — $32,500 · Human Services+3 moreTaylor University — $353,000 · EducationTaylor UniversityOakland City University — $80,000 · EducationOakland City Univer…+1 more — $12,000 · EducationEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC — $100,000 · OtherEVANSVILLE RESCUE M…CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $95,000 · OtherCROSSROADS CHRISTIA…IMPACT EVANSVILLE INC — $56,025 · OtherIMPACT EVANSVILLE I…INDIANA AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherINDIANA AGRICULTURE…Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $20,000 · OtherCARMEL-CLAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · OtherRIGHT TO LIFE OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND — $15,000 · OtherLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC — $22,500 · OtherYOUNG LIFE — $20,000 · Other+11 more — $39,000 · Other+11 moreUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $170,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…ALLIANCE INITIATIVES FUND INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE …+1 more — $3,700 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY ONE INC — $138,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH FIRST — $105,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC — $40,000 · Health
Religion$634,100Human Services$506,500Education$445,000Other$432,525Philanthropy$223,700Housing & Shelter$173,000Health$145,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFor Evansville Inc — $390,800 over 6y, 29% of budgetTaylor University — $353,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cooper House Inc — $214,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $170,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Denver Institute — $140,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ONE INC — $138,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetYOUTH FIRST — $105,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC — $105,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOakland City University — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Potter's Wheel Inc — $60,800 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetIMPACT EVANSVILLE INC — $56,025 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetAmericas Kids Belong — $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSAME AS U INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALLIANCE INITIATIVES FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDream Center Evansville — $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARMEL-CLAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCROSSROADS COALITION INC — $17,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetISAIAH 117 HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRIGHT TO LIFE OF SOUTHWEST INDIANA EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWARRICK LITERACY AND EDUCATIONAL CONNECTIONS INC — $12,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAURORA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMET MINISTRIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWINDSWEPT HILLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetEVSC FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN EVANSVILLE - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $3,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVanderburgh County CASA Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Penrod Society LTD — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Centerpoint Energy Fo…Community Foundation …Cecil a and Mabel Len…Evansville Endowment …Welborn Baptist Found…Koch Foundation IncGerling Family Founda…Holiday Management Fo…Deaconess Hospital IncWest Side Nut Club IncThe Bower-Suhrheinric…Braun Family Foundati…
Centerpoint Energy Foundation IncTX40.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Koch Foundation Inc · Gerling Family Foundation Inc · Holiday Management Foundation · Deaconess Hospital Inc · West Side Nut Club Inc · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Chapman Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chapman Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Chapman Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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