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Chapman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$227kRecreation & Sports$65kArts & Culture$21kReligion$3kCrime & Legal$2kInternational$2kFood & Nutrition$1kHealth$703Other$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$750
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DREAMCHASERS BASKETBALL CLUB$50,000
FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY$20,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$3,250
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE$3,000
NORTH CAROLINA A&T UNIVERSITY$1,500
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$1,500
NOROOZ FOUNDATION$1,250
JARAMILLO LATIN DANCE ACADEMY$1,000
INSTITUTE OF BEAUTY ARTISTRY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY$1,000
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$750
CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $1k → 10%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $3k → 18%SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 25%VOORHEES COLLEGE: $2k → 28%BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%NABHOOD: $3k → 13%FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $20k → 15%ST AUGUSTINE'S UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA A&T UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE: $6k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $2k → 11%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 19%SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $2k → 15%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $3k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $3k → 18%CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 25%NABHOOD: $3k → 13%FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $6k → 15%MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $2k → 11%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $3k → 16%FLORIDA MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 13%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $3k → 16%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $2k → 16%LEGACY PARK: $3k → 10%USC UPSTATE: $3k → 15%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $2k → 16%WORLD UPSIDE DOWN: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $2k → 16%GREENVILLE TECH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $2k → 16%GREENVILLE TECHNICALE COLLEGE: $2k → 10%BENEDICT COLLEGE: $2k → 16%BETTER U CONNECT: $5k → 10%JARAMILLO LATIN DANCE ACADEMY: $3k → 10%JARAMILLO LATIN DANCE ACADEMY: $3k → 10%YOUNTS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $10k → 10%FOUNTAIN INN POLICE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 10%DREAMCHASERS BASKETBALL CLUB: $50k → 10%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

WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$206k · 56 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
76

Total granted

$206k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

32%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • FM
    Florida Memorial University Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +26%
  • MB
    MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • PC
    PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • YC
    YOUNTS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • N
    NABHOOD
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
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
2
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
3
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
4
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
5
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
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
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
12
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia College; the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Repertory Orchestra 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

45 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. 45 of the 144 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)
45/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DREAMCHASERS BASKETBALL CLUB: $50,000 · OtherDREAMCHASERS BASKETBALL CLUBUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $21,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINASC DREAMCHASERS BASKETBALL CLUB: $15,000 · OtherSC DREAMCHASERS BASKETBALL CLUBCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $13,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYYOUNTS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Other+100 more: $130,192 · Other+100 moreFlorida Memorial University Inc: $31,500 · EducationFlorida Memorial University …MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationMORRIS BROWN COLLEGECLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $5,500 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVERSITYBENEDICT COLLEGE: $4,500 · EducationBENEDICT COLLEGEClark Atlanta University Inc: $3,250 · Education+30 more: $27,625 · Education+30 morePRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterWorld Upside Down SC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNOROOZ FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · Human ServicesMARCH OF DIMES INC: $103 · Health
Other$239,442Education$82,375Housing & Shelter$6,000Arts & Culture$2,500Human Services$1,750Health$103

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 budgetFlorida Memorial University Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS BROWN COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Augustine's University: $2,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOROOZ FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoorhees College: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIMESTONE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS COLLEGE: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTalladega College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURRY COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAllen University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStillman College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIDENER UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetErskine College and Theological Seminary: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiles College Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Repertory Orchestra Inc: $27 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Florida Memorial University Inc ↗
  • Who funds MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
  • Who funds Saint Augustine's University ↗
  • Who funds World Upside Down SC ↗
  • Who funds BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NOROOZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Voorhees College ↗

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.

Tom Joyner Foundation…Dick Horne FoundationUnited Negro College …National Collegiate A…South Carolina Indepe…Watson-Brown Foundati…Lettie Pate Whitehead…Educational Credit Ma…Central Carolina Comm…Ibm International Fou…Enterprise Holdings F…Spartanburg County Fo…
Tom Joyner Foundation IncTX32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Florida Memorial University Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Bethune-Cookman University: 11% of income from government
  • Curry College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chapman 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 144 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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