Georgia · Private foundation
Chestnut Family Foundation
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.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $172,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $320M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Chestnut Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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 | 39 | $16M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $18M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $16M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $8.0M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.6M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.7M | 67% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $936k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $778k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Galloway Schools Inc | $10,000,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Join Together Society America | $9,500,000 | 4 | 93% |
| The Ayn Rand Institute the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism | $6,000,000 | 2 | 12% |
| City of Refuge | $5,841,667 | 4 | 12% |
| Artsnow Inc | $4,568,122 | 8 | 44% |
| Atlanta Music Project Inc | $3,279,290 | 8 | 73% |
| The Global Village Project Inc | $3,169,250 | 4 | 12% |
| Moving in the Spirit Inc | $1,567,500 | 5 | 33% |
| Atlanta Beltline Partnership Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Kate's Club Inc | $1,112,000 | 4 | 17% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chestnut Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · John H & Wilhelmina D Harland Charitable Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Joseph B Whitehead Foundation · Fraser-Parker Foundation
How this is measured
About Chestnut Family Foundation
- How much does Chestnut Family Foundation give?
- Chestnut Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $17,007,752 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chestnut Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (15%), International (14%).
- Who are Chestnut Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Galloway Schools Inc ($10M), Join Together Society America ($9.5M), The Ayn Rand Institute the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism ($6.0M).
- Does Chestnut Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chestnut Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chestnut Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Imlay Foundation Inc.
- Where is Chestnut Family Foundation based?
- Chestnut Family Foundation is based in GA.
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