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Chiaroscuro Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k1 grant · $575
- $10k–50k22 grants · $492k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE | $159,559 |
| SOPHIA INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | $150,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| LIFE PERSPECTIVES | $100,000 |
| JOHN PAUL II CENTER FOR WOMEN | $80,000 |
| DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT | $80,000 |
| CCF GIVING INC | $80,000 |
| WORLD YOUTH ALLIANCE | $65,000 |
| AFRICAN MISSION HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $50,000 |
| REGINA PACIS ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CLASSICAL SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| THOMAS MORE COLLEGE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS | $40,000 |
| THE ELM INSTITUTE | $38,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SISOPHIA INSTITUTE2× · 2017–2018 · $300k · revenue +115%
- LPLIFE PERSPECTIVES2× · 2017–2018 · $175k · revenue +127%
- DVDIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT2× · 2017–2018 · $130k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- FFFEMM Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $446k · revenue +284% · 61% of their budget
- FFFoundation For Excellence in Higher Educationone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +22%
- TCTHE CATHOLIC GUY INCone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
To promote the teaching of the Western Tradition, its relationship to other traditions and its importance in the modern era, through educational courses, resources and teacher training.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Divine Mercy University is a Catholic graduate school of psychology and counseling, founded in 1999. The University is dedicated to the scientific study of psychology and counseling with a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage and…
Conference
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is John Paul Ii Center for Women. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FEMM Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHIAROSCURO INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds LIFE PERSPECTIVES ↗
- Who funds John Paul II Center for Women ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC GUY INC ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WYA Foundation Inc dba World Youth Alliance ↗
- Who funds Witherspoon Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MEDICINE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds ENDOW ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Elm Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Atlas Economic Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Considine Family Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Casillas Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · John Templeton Foundation · Servant Foundation · The 85 Fund · Mercy Works Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chiaroscuro Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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