Massachusetts · Private foundation
Chestnut Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,465,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $55M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Chestnut Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $3.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $4.9M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $4.1M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $6.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Acre Fund | $2,500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | $2,245,000 | 5 | 1% |
| New Mexico Voices for Children | $900,000 | 3 | 13% |
| The Washington State Budget and Policy Center | $532,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Maine Center for Economic Policy | $460,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Washington Progress Fund | $420,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Connecticut Voices for Children Inc | $350,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Oregon Center for Public Policy | $325,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Wisconsin Voices Inc | $325,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Maine People's Resource Center | $315,000 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chestnut Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Limestone Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Impactassetsinc · Economic Security Project Inc · Economic Policy Institute · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Chestnut Fund?
Find your warmest path to Chestnut Fund 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 Chestnut Fund
- How much does Chestnut Fund give?
- Chestnut Fund reported 3 grants totaling $2,935,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Chestnut Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Public Benefit (21%), International (11%).
- Who are Chestnut Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: One Acre Fund ($2.5M), Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ($2.2M), New Mexico Voices for Children ($900k).
- Does Chestnut Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chestnut Fund 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 Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Chestnut Fund based?
- Chestnut Fund is based in MA.
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