North Carolina · Private foundation
Chatham Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $312k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $144,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Chatham Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $312k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $437k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $272k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $165k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $143k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $125k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkin City Schools | $216,125 | 4 | n/a |
| Elkin Academic Enrichment Foundation | $144,000 | 1 | 88% |
| Arlington Fire & Rescue Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Piedmont Land Conservancy | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Reeves Downtown School of Music Inc | $41,500 | 3 | 25% |
| Children's Center of Surry Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Yadkin Valley United Fund Inc | $38,250 | 2 | 10% |
| Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Inc | $31,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Elkin Valley Trails Association | $27,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Surry County Historical Society Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkin City Schools | $216,125 | 4 | n/a |
| Elkin Academic Enrichment Foundation | $144,000 | 1 | 88% |
| Arlington Fire & Rescue Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Piedmont Land Conservancy | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Reeves Downtown School of Music Inc | $41,500 | 3 | 25% |
| Children's Center of Surry Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Yadkin Valley United Fund Inc | $38,250 | 2 | 10% |
| Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Inc | $31,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Elkin Valley Trails Association | $27,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Surry County Historical Society Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilkes County Schools | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| African American Historical and Genealogical Socie | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hope Recovery Services | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alleghany Cares Inc | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
| FRIENDS OF EAST BEND TOWN SQUARE Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Woody Williams Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tri County Christian Crisis Ministr | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan Kitchen of Wilkes | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Your Fathers House Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($746k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chatham Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Chatham Foundation Inc
- How much does Chatham Foundation Inc give?
- Chatham Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $312,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Chatham Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (16%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Chatham Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Elkin City Schools ($216k), Elkin Academic Enrichment Foundation ($144k), Arlington Fire & Rescue Inc ($50k).
- Does Chatham Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chatham Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chatham Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boyles-Eidson Family Foundation, The Winston-Salem Foundation, Hillsdale Fund.
- Where is Chatham Foundation Inc based?
- Chatham Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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