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Chardonnay Foundation at a glance

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Chardonnay Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.8M
Granted FY2022
29
Grants FY2022
9
States reached
$2.6M
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, FY2020 to 2022.

Philanthropy$2.6MHuman Services$102kAnimals$78kFood & Nutrition$65kYouth Development$40kHealth$17kInternational$10kPublic Benefit$7kOther$0
02FY2022 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k19 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $111k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.6M
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC$2,648,714
FEED THE CHILDREN$21,260
NASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY$15,000
BARNABAS CENTER$15,000
PAWS FOR SENIORS$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH EAST FLORIDA$10,000
MICAH'S PLACE$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
FARM SHARE$10,000
BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF NASSAU CO INC$10,000
COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA$5,000
ANIMAL LIFELINE OF IOWA INC$5,000
CANINE ASSISTANTS$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FL$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $5k → 13%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $5k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $3k → 13%CANINE ASSISTANTS: $5k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $5k → 13%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

IA
IN
CA
MO
VA
NC
OK
GA
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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$330k · 27 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
2

Total granted

$330k
$2.7M

Still filing today

74%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
AnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalOther
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

  • NH
    NASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $34k · revenue +116%
  • BC
    BARNABAS CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $29k · revenue +48%
  • MP
    Micahs Place Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • MS
    MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2.6M
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS FOR PETS
    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
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
2
Florida Urgent Rescue

To rescue urgent animals.

Animals
3
Flagler Humane Society Inc

We transform the lives of animals with compassionate care and services, outstanding educational programs, and advocacy for all animals.

Animals
4
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
5
Humane Society of Greater Miami-Dade for Pocta Aap

Matching furry friends with their purr-fect homes & offering affordable spay/neuter.

Animals
6
Humane Society of Manatee County

The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.

Animals
7
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
8
Tri County Humane Society

Tri-county animal rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 573,000 unwanted pets in broward, miami-dade, and palm beach counties. tri-county has no boundaries; we go all over the u.s. whenever we…

Animals
9
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
10
Juneau Animal Rescue

To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.

Animals
11
Gulf Coast Humane Society Inc

Our mission at gulf coast humane society is to care for companion pets in need by offering safe refuge, providing medical care and facilitating adoptions.

Animals
12
Faithful Friends Pet Rescue and Rehoming

Faithful friends pet and rehoming, inc is dedicated to the rescue and rehoming of dogs and cats in the gainesville, fl and surrounding communities. we pride ouselves on being family-friendly, all volunteer-run, and inclusive.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

20 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. 20 of the 29 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $2,648,714 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC+14 more: $103,000 · OtherNASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $34,000 · AnimalsPAWS FOR SENIORS: $16,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LIFELINE OF IOWA INC: $7,500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $6,000 · AnimalsDUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,000 · AnimalsMicahs Place Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $42,520 · InternationalBARNABAS CENTER INC: $29,000 · Housing & ShelterBoys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAS YOUTH INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentFARM SHARE INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,751,714Animals$68,000Human Services$47,500International$42,520Housing & Shelter$29,000Youth Development$22,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $42,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $34,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBARNABAS CENTER INC: $29,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFARM SHARE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMicahs Place Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR SENIORS: $16,500 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANIMAL LIFELINE OF IOWA INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF IOWA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAIR & SPACE FORCES AID SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Smurfit Westrock US F…The Community Foundat…Publix Super Markets …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…AbbVie FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN14.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Micahs Place Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Farm Share Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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