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Chapman University

The mission of CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY is to provide personalized education of distinction that leads to inquiring, ethical and productive lives as global citizens.

$216M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$712k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Science & Tech$6.6MHealth$5.0MEducation$3.0MEnvironment$1.0MSocial Science$31k
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $3,495,753, the rows itemized in this filing. The $216,304,363 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $212,808,610 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $677k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
$48,036
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$712,019
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$618,214
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$430,277
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$379,701
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$341,315
MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES$144,005
SAINT MARYS COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA$115,443
UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS$89,667
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$72,989
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY$70,446
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO$70,391
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$57,881
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY$56,443
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$48,036
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$40,534
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAINT MARYS COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $115k → 9%MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES: $222k → 10%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $181k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $90k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $822k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA: $435k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $210k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $79k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $173k → 15%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $152k → 19%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $389k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO: $120k → 10%Foundation for National Institutes of Health: $122k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $89k → 15%MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES: $144k → 10%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $130k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $618k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $430k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $117k → 14%University of New Mexico: $71k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $162k → 15%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $122k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $341k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO: $75k → 10%MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES: $144k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $482k → 14%Univ of California Regents Santa Barbara: $325k → 14%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $124k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO: $73k → 10%MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES: $144k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $415k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA: $261k → 14%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $95k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION: $73k → 10%MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES: $78k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $284k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA: $130k → 14%Memorial Health Services: $76k → 10%KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN: $189k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $380k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $266k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $124k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $105k → 10%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $73k → 14%University of California Regents Irvine: $83k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $79k → 10%University of Southern California: $421k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $119k → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
MD
AZ
NM
AR
NC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 30 repeat orgs$920k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
6

Total granted

$11M
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+59%

Still filing today

40%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MH
    MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $905k · revenue +88%
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $215k · revenue +84%
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $202k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • N
    NIHNIA
    one grant, 2020 · $122k
  • UO
    University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $89k · revenue +2%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +76%
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
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
4
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
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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8
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
9
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
10
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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

24 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. 24 of the 48 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)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,493,119 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $2,148,068 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $1,083,075 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINETHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $949,852 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $479,489 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $383,903 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $333,641 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $327,240 · Other+16 more: $1,476,001 · Other+16 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,369,669 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $214,550 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $202,034 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $166,909 · Education+15 more: $873,350 · Education+15 moreMEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES: $905,025 · HealthSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City: $122,042 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $55,327 · Health+1 more: $17,632 · HealthNorthwestern University: $49,991 · Recreation & Sports
Other$9,674,388Education$4,826,512Health$1,100,026Recreation & Sports$49,991

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3,369,669 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES: $905,025 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $214,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $202,034 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $166,909 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City: $122,042 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $115,443 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS: $89,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $89,309 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $84,565 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $72,989 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $70,446 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $70,391 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $67,037 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $55,327 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $49,991 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $48,931 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION: $40,653 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $38,595 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION: $23,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $17,919 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $17,632 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUATX: $14,680 over 1y, 0.0% 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING INNOVATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’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 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 48 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 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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