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Chilanta Community Foundation at a glance

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Chilanta Community Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$196kArts & Culture$95kHuman Services$69kReligion$61kInternational$40kYouth Development$39kHousing & Shelter$20kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$298k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL VETERANS ART MUSEUM$25,000
BOOKS AND BREAKFAST$15,000
AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA$5,000
FRIENDS OF BURKINO FASO$5,000
CHICAGO BIBLE SOCIETY$5,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$5,000
NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREP$5,000
YWCA CENTRAL CAROLINAS$5,000
JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY$2,500
EVANSTON SCHOLARS$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%QC FAMILY TREE: $5k → 10%QC FAMILY TREE: $5k → 10%FASHION & COMPASSION: $8k → 10%FASHION & COMPASSION: $6k → 10%FASHION & COMPASSION: $5k → 10%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$511k · 20 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
4

Total granted

$511k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+221%

Still filing today

75%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentInternationalReligionOther
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

  • BA
    BOOKS AND BREAKFAST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +493%
  • CB
    Chicago Bible Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +80%
  • HO
    HAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES
    5× · 2018–2023 · $27k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CP
    CALDWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • CB
    Charlotte Bilingual Learning Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +221%
  • HH
    HEALING HANDS OF JOY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
2
Nest Academy Inc

The Nest Academy is a trauma-informed, private K-12 school in Charlotte, North Carolina with a mission to change the lives of refugee and underprivileged students to become confident, educated, and successful first generation high school…

Education
3
Charlotte Jewish Preschool

To provide quality half-day and full-day preschool programs for children ages one to five within an enriched Jewish environment. CJP is dedicated to providing young children with a secure and loving atmosphere so that they can develop a…

Education
4
Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte

The mission of ALP is to improve the reading, writing, and spelling skills of young, aspiring readers in under-resourced communities by providing free, long-term, one-on-one instruction from highly trained tutors.

Education
5
Charlotte Preparatory School Inc

Charlotte Preparatory School fosters lifelong learning and provides an exemplary educational experience founded on academic excellence, positive character, and leadership development in a diverse, inclusive community.

Education
6
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
7
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
8
Carolina Collaborative Prep

Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.

Education
9
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
10
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
11
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
12
Nashville Freedom School Partnership

The Nashville Freedom School Partnership(C) uses literacy to instill cultural pride, self-assurance, and active citizenship with a primary focus on children of color.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evanston Scholars; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Burkina Faso Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOOKS AND BREAKFAST: $154,000 · EducationBOOKS AND BREAKFASTEVANSTON SCHOLARS: $13,500 · EducationEVANSTON SCHOLARS+2 more: $9,500 · Education+2 moreNATIONAL VIETNAM VETERANS ART MUSEUM DBA NATIONAL VETERANS ART MUSEUM: $75,000 · OtherNATIONAL VIETNAM VETERANS ART MUSEUM DBA…CENTRAL CAROLINAS YWCA: $23,000 · OtherCENTRAL CAROLINAS YWCAYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $16,000 · OtherYoung Womens Christian Association of th…STRIVE: $15,000 · OtherSTRIVECHILDREN'S NETWORK OF EVANSTON: $12,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S NETWORK OF EVANSTONMORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY: $8,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM+6 more: $24,000 · Other+6 moreChicago Bible Society: $38,500 · Crime & LegalChicago B…JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY: $7,500 · Crime & LegalJAMES B M…HAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $27,000 · InternationalFriends of Burkina Faso Inc: $10,000 · InternationalBRAVEWORKS: $18,500 · Human ServicesTHE QC FAMILY TREE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentFreedom School Partners Inc: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $22,000 · Religion
Education$177,000Other$193,000Crime & Legal$46,000International$37,000Human Services$36,000Youth Development$29,000Religion$22,000

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 budgetBOOKS AND BREAKFAST: $154,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetNATIONAL VIETNAM VETERANS ART MUSEUM DBA NATIONAL VETERANS ART MUSEUM: $75,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetChicago Bible Society: $38,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetHAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $27,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRAVEWORKS: $18,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE: $15,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetEVANSTON SCHOLARS: $13,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE QC FAMILY TREE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFriends of Burkina Faso Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFreedom School Partners Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildcare Network of Evanston: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 Chicago Community…Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Northwestern Universi…Duke Energy FoundationCless Family Foundati…The Marc & Mattye Sil…The Kellcie FundEvanston Community Fo…Jewish Federation of …The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
The Chicago Community TrustIL19.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Northwestern University · Duke Energy Foundation · Cless Family Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Evanston Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chilanta Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chilanta Community Foundation 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.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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