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Chessie Foundation Inc

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$634k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.6MHealth$850kArts & Culture$842kEnvironment$660kEducation$499kPhilanthropy$155kYouth Development$110kHuman Services$30k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $345k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$75,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION$633,959
SS UNITED STATES CONSERVANCY$420,000
TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY$150,000
MAAYAN HATORAH DAY SCHOOL$75,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$70,000
LANDER GRINSPOON ACADEMY$50,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION SOUTHERN FLORIDA$30,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LANDER GRINSPOON ACADEMY: $50k → 12%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $70k → 16%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY USA - AFTAU: $62k → 17%WASHINGTON DC CHAPTER NRHS: $75k → 14%MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA: $30k → 13%TUNNAA: $30k → 16%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 32%MAAYAN HATORAH DAY SCHOOL: $75k → 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $10k → 13%MARINE CONSERVATION INSTITUTE: $50k → 9%ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM & PARK: $125k → 6%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID ATLANTIC: $230k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%LANDER-GRINSPOON ACADEMY: $30k → 12%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $60k → 16%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY USA - AFTAU: $3k → 17%WASHINGTON DC CHAPTER NRHS: $50k → 14%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION SOUTHERN FLORIDA: $30k → 13%ANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM & PARK: $5k → 6%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $60k → 16%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%MIDORI AND FRIENDS: $12k → 17%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $200k → 14%MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA: $30k → 13%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $25k → 6%MAKE A WISH: $30k → 8%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $60k → 16%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $750k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $25k → 6%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $60k → 16%WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $634k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $25k → 6%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 16%WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $250k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $25k → 6%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY: $100k → 16%THE FOXHALL FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%SS UNITED STATES CONSERVANCY: $100k → 14%SS UNITED STATES CONSERVANCY: $90k → 14%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

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MD
DC
AL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 11 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$4.0M
$602k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+5%

Still filing today

73%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SU
    SS United States Conservancy
    3× · 2018–2025 · $610k · revenue +1% · 66% of their budget
  • CM
    CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +72%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $360k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TK
    THE KENNEDY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +217%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
4
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
8
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

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9
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
10
The Massachusetts Society for Medical Research Inc

To educate the public, media and members of the legislative, veterinary, and medical profession of medical advancement from animal research.

Health
11
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foxhall Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $1,633,959 · OtherWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATIONMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $260,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INCTHE KENNEDY CENTER: $200,000 · OtherTHE KENNEDY CENTERANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $130,000 · OtherWASHINGTON DC CHAPTER NRHS: $125,000 · Other+6 more: $241,000 · Other+6 moreSS United States Conservancy: $610,000 · Arts & CultureSS United States Conserva…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $360,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA…THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDEN…+1 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI …MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $90,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH F…Tuskegee University: $150,000 · EducationTuskegee …UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…MAAYAN HATORAH DAY SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationMAAYAN HA…MARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EducationMARINE CO…Foxhall Foundation: $30,000 · EducationFoxhall F…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,589,959Arts & Culture$1,085,000Health$590,000Education$405,000Youth Development$110,000

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 budgetSS United States Conservancy: $610,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CARE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $360,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $260,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTuskegee University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $130,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL: $100,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLander-Grinspoon Academy Solomon Schechter Day School: $80,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMAAYAN HATORAH DAY SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFoxhall Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

The Keith Campbell Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment IncMD13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 24 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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