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Chapman Family Foundation Inc

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.

$402k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$555kEducation$474kCommunity Improvement$424kReligion$258kPhilanthropy$220kHousing & Shelter$163kYouth Development$150kHealth$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOPER HOUSE INC$75,000
DENVER INSTITUTE FOR FAITH AND WORK$75,000
COLLEGE PARK CHURCH$40,000
EVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC$25,000
DREAM CENTER EVANSVILLE$20,000
FORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC$15,000
CARMEL CLAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000
LOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC$15,000
SACRED PLACE$12,000
CHRISTIANITY TODAY$10,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$10,000
EMET MINISTRIES$10,000
YOUNG LIFE$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC$10,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $607k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG INC: $20k → 9%THE ABBEY: $10k → 11%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC: $50k → 12%AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG INC: $15k → 9%FORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC: $15k → 12%AMERICA'S KIDS BELONG INC: $10k → 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: $75k → 5%COOPER HOUSE INC: $61k → 5%COOPER HOUSE INC: $59k → 5%COOPER HOUSE INC: $50k → 5%COOPER HOUSE INC: $39k → 5%FINISH WELL FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 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
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.
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 14% of Chapman Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in IN; by stated purpose, 93%.

Chapman Family Foundation Inclessmore 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 31 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
13

Total granted

$2.4M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+5%

Still filing today

90%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & 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

  • FE
    For Evansville Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $391k · revenue +30% · 29% of their budget
  • TC
    The Cooper House Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $289k · revenue +810%
  • TD
    The Denver Institute
    4× · 2022–2025 · $216k · 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
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
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
Evansville Regional Economic Partnership Foundation

Promote business growth and activities in evansville, indiana.

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4
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
5
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
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
Faith in Indiana

Faith in Indiana (formerly IndyCAN) is a catalyst for faith communities and marginalized peoples to act collectively for racial and economic justice in Indiana. FaithIN develops civic leaders directly impacted by inequality, awakens the…

Human Services
8
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
9
The Urban Alternative

The Urban Alternative is a Christian Ministry that seeks to equip, empower, and unite Christians to impact individuals, families, churches, and communities for the rebuilding of lives from the inside out.

Religion
10
Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc
Food & Nutrition
11
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Indiana Inc

Child evangelism fellowship is a bible-centered, interdenominational, worldwide organization, composed of born-again believers whose purpose and mission are to evangelize boys and girls with the gospel of the lord jesus christ, disciple…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Southwestern Indiana Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 52 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

For Evansville Inc: $390,800 · ReligionFor Evansville IncThe Denver Institute: $215,500 · ReligionThe Denver InstituteThe Potter's Wheel Inc: $70,800 · ReligionThe Potter's Wheel IncDream Center Evansville: $40,000 · Religion+3 more: $42,000 · Religion+3 moreThe Cooper House Inc: $289,000 · Human ServicesThe Cooper House IncEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LI…FORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORL…Americas Kids Belong: $65,000 · Human ServicesAmericas Kids BelongSAME AS U INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSAME AS U INC+5 more: $52,500 · Human Services+5 moreEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC: $125,000 · OtherEVANSVILLE RESCUE MIS…CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $95,000 · OtherCROSSROADS CHRISTIAN …IMPACT EVANSVILLE INC: $56,025 · OtherIMPACT EVANSVILLE INCCOLLEGE PARK CHURCH INC: $40,000 · OtherCOLLEGE PARK CHURCH I…CARMEL-CLAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $35,000 · OtherCARMEL-CLAY HISTORICA…INDIANA AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC: $37,500 · OtherLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY C…YOUNG LIFE: $30,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE+14 more: $76,000 · Other+14 moreTaylor University: $353,000 · EducationTaylor UniversityOakland City University: $80,000 · EducationOakland City Univ…+1 more: $12,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $170,000 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE INITIATIVES FUND INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,700 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY ONE INC: $148,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH FIRST: $105,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC: $50,000 · Health
Religion$759,100Human Services$626,500Other$559,525Education$445,000Philanthropy$233,700Housing & Shelter$183,000Health$155,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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: $289,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetThe Denver Institute: $215,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $170,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ONE INC: $148,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetEVANSVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $105,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH FIRST: $105,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOakland City University: $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Potter's Wheel Inc: $70,800 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetFORGOTTEN CHILDREN WORLDWIDE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAmericas Kids Belong: $65,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIMPACT EVANSVILLE INC: $56,025 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSAME AS U INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetALLIANCE INITIATIVES FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDream Center Evansville: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC: $37,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCARMEL-CLAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetEMET MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetWARRICK LITERACY AND EDUCATIONAL CONNECTIONS INC: $12,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetThe Abbey Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFINISH WELL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 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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