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Chappell Culpeper Family Foundation

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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$7.8MEducation$7.7MEmployment$1.1MYouth Development$445kHuman Services$356kPhilanthropy$352kInternational$350kFood & Nutrition$276kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$99,925
Median grant
2
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,000,000
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$150,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA$133,750
JEFFERSON HEALTH$125,000
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA$117,500
ORLEANS TECHNICAL COLLEGE$100,000
PHILADELPHIA OIC$100,000
BUCKS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$100,000
PHILADELPHIA WORKS$100,000
Individual grant recipient$99,925
HOPEWORKS$75,000
CHESTER CHARTER SCHOLAR ACADEMY$50,000
BUILDING 21$50,000
CRISTO REY$50,000
PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND$35,000
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, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SASSY MASSEY SMILES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%ALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $6k → 6%ALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $5k → 6%Wounded Warriors Project: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $5k → 14%Wounded Warriors Project: $5k → 14%Alpha Brave Canine: $10k → 22%ALPHA BRAVE CANINE: $5k → 22%Alpha Brave Canine: $5k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
TN
DC
GA
FL

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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 42 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
39

Total granted

$15M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

62%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $919k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $2.4M · revenue +180%
  • CS
    CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +32%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • H
    HEIGHTS
    one grant, 2023 · $333k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $150k

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
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

2
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
3
Wilson College

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

Education
4
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
10
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
11
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard Collaborative and the most unlike its peers is Sassy Massey Smiles Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Land Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceVeteran Support ServicesYouth Sports Booster Organi…Public University Foundatio…Education Equity LeadershipFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Health CentersIndependent K-8 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr17%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr17%27%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,116

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.

04the grantee network

46 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 94 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC — $1,017,500 · OtherSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INCIndividual grant recipient — $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $594,215 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $472,861 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEIGHTS — $332,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA - KING OF PRUSSIA — $300,000 · Other+55 more — $3,592,926 · Other+55 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $2,430,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADEL…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,750,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADEL…THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 · HealthTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $450,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE+1 more — $125,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA — $2,350,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND…HAVERFORD SCHOOL — $425,500 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOLLA SALLE ACADEMY — $315,000 · EducationLA SALLE ACADEMYDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $314,920 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $210,000 · Education+14 more — $848,845 · Education+14 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $350,000 · InternationalCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC — $235,000 · PhilanthropySPEAKUP — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $11,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT — $250,000 · Community ImprovementPLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $200,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance — $26,250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$7,310,002Health$6,005,000Education$4,714,265International$350,000Philanthropy$296,000Community Improvement$275,000Food & Nutrition$226,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $2,430,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA — $2,350,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC — $1,017,500 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $450,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL — $425,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $350,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE ACADEMY — $315,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $314,920 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT — $250,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC — $235,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $210,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $200,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPEIRCE COLLEGE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOLLES SCHOOL — $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetElevate 215 — $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK — $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA WORKS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PUERTO RICO INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREADING ALLOWED — $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $58,845 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHESTER CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDING 21 — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSPEAKUP — $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWORKSHOP LEARNING — $50,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetALPHA BRAVO CANINE — $31,250 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetVanderbilt University — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $26,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826 BOSTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSASSY MASSEY SMILES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
  • Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY CITY DISTRICT
  • Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELMIRA-CORNING AND THE FINGER LAKES INC
  • Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK
  • Who funds PEIRCE COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE BOLLES SCHOOL
  • Who funds Elevate 215
  • Who funds HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC
  • Who funds JEFFERSON HEALTH CORPORATION F/K/A ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER INC

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.

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Lenfest Foundation Inc · The Maguire Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Brook J Lenfest Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Charitable Trust

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 Chappell Culpeper Family Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • 826 Boston Inc3% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report 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, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Chappell Culpeper Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chappell Culpeper Family Foundation 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 94 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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