· Private foundation
Chatham Financial Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GARAGE | $50,000 |
| NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| DRESSEMBER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MILE HIGH MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| MIGHT WRITERS | $15,500 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $12,000 |
| KENNETT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BRANDYWINEBOTS ROBOTICS CLUB INC | $4,500 |
| LIGHT UP THE QUEEN | $2,500 |
| GOOD WORKS INC | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE | $500 |
| PROJECT PURPLE | $500 |
| BRENT'S PLACE | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TGTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER3× · 2019–2021 · $148k · revenue +70%
- CCCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $87k · revenue +12%
- WCWESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $38k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- LPLITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $185k
KENNETT LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +51%- KKACSone grant, 2023 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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Summary
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…
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.
Wilberforce university is a historically black college and university and the primary mission is to engage, support, and assist students in identifying and preparing for their respective purposes in life as social change agents, social…
The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.
To identify, conduct, translate, and apply rigorous research that frames the public discourse on social problems in order to advance the nonprofit and public sectors' communications capacity, alignment, and effectiveness.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Light Up the Queen 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 67 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds YOUNGMOMS ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER 4 EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GOOD WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN HAITI ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dressember Foundation ↗
- Who funds Wings for Success Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE BRANDYWINEBOTS ROBOTICS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Southern Chester County · Connelly Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Oxford Area Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc
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 Chatham Financial Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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