South Carolina · Private foundation
Chapman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Chapman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $102k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $54k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $29k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $30k | 51% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $34k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $27k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $23k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $15k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dreamchasers Basketball Club | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Florida Memorial University Inc | $31,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Morris Brown College | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Presbyterian College | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Claflin University | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Winthrop University | $5,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Benedict College | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Clark Atlanta University Inc | $3,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Saint Augustine's University | $2,625 | 1 | 0% |
| World Upside Down SC | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($177k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chapman Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Dick Horne Foundation · United Negro College Fund Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chapman Foundation Inc
- How much does Chapman Foundation Inc give?
- Chapman Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $101,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chapman Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Chapman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dreamchasers Basketball Club ($50k), Florida Memorial University Inc ($32k), Morris Brown College ($10k).
- Does Chapman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chapman Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chapman Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tom Joyner Foundation Inc, Dick Horne Foundation, United Negro College Fund Inc.
- Where is Chapman Foundation Inc based?
- Chapman Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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