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Chatham Financial Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$192k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Chatham Financial Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$192k50%
FY202412$192k67%
FY202312$252k75%
FY20228$239k100%
FY20215$248k40%
FY202022$106k91%
FY20196$208k83%
FY20186$41k83%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$471kYouth Development$284kHuman Services$253kHealth$105kArts & Culture$80kHousing & Shelter$54kPhilanthropy$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
DE
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 43 grantees
All grantees of Chatham Financial Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Garage Community & Youth Center$147,62837%
Kennett Library$100,00012%
Chester County Futures Inc$87,00054%
A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary$74,00032%
Youngmoms$60,000118%
Together 4 Education$53,0001n/a
Westside Community Center$38,00025%
Mile High Ministries$25,00011%
Chester County Food Bank$25,00020%
Good Works Inc$21,00031%
Good Neighbors Inc$16,00011%
Mighty Writers$15,5001n/a
Believe in Haiti$15,0001n/a
Equal Justice Initiative$14,88310%
Lincoln University$12,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$12,00010%
Wings for Success Inc$10,00012%
Dressember Foundation$10,00010%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston$9,42710%
Bike4beds$7,5001n/a
The Brandywinebots Robotics Club Inc$7,50023%
Littleton Public Schools Foundation$6,00011%
Family Promise of Southern Chester County$5,00011%
The Against Malaria Foundation$5,00010%
Pflag$5,00010%
Denver Dumb Friends League$5,00010%
LCH Health and Community Services$5,00010%
Education Pioneers$3,00010%
Light Up the Queen Inc$2,50013%
Southeast Raleigh Community$2,50011%
The Denver Children's Foundation$2,50010%
The Innocence Project Inc$2,05010%
United Negro College Fund Inc$1,50010%
International Justice Mission$1,50010%
We the Protesters Inc$1,27010%
Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project$1,21310%
Charles a Melton Arts & Education Center$1,00010%
By The Hand Club For Kids$1,00010%
Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation$1,00010%
Be the Bridge$66710%
Project Purple Inc$5001n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Delaware Inc$50010%
Brent Eley Foundation$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($736k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chatham Financial Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Garage Community & Youth Center: $147,628 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetKennett Library: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetChester County Futures Inc: $87,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $74,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetYoungmoms: $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWestside Community Center: $38,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMile High Ministries: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChester County Food Bank: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGood Works Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGood Neighbors Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $14,883 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln University: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWings for Success Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDressember Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston: $9,427 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brandywinebots Robotics Club Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLittleton Public Schools Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFamily Promise of Southern Chester County: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPflag: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Pioneers: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLight Up the Queen Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSoutheast Raleigh Community: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Denver Children's Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $2,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Justice Mission: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe the Protesters Inc: $1,270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Institutional Law Project: $1,213 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharles a Melton Arts & Education Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrazy Horse Memorial Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBe the Bridge: $667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Delaware Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

Chester County Community FoundationPA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Chatham Financial 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.

About Chatham Financial Foundation Inc

How much does Chatham Financial Foundation Inc give?
Chatham Financial Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $192,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Chatham Financial Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Youth Development (18%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Chatham Financial Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Garage Community & Youth Center ($148k), Kennett Library ($100k), Chester County Futures Inc ($87k).
Does Chatham Financial Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Chatham Financial Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chatham Financial Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, The Dansko Foundation Inc, United Way of Chester County Inc.
Where is Chatham Financial Foundation Inc based?
Chatham Financial Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 67 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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