Oregon · Private foundation
Chiles Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $375k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 90%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $375,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 90% of the organizations Chiles Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k 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 | 1 | $375k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $334k | 90% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $6.4M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $508k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Portland | $5,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities | $1,156,333 | 4 | n/a |
| Music Workshop | $650,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Providence Portland Medical Foundation | $545,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Olive Crest | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Children- Central Oregon | $180,000 | 1 | 10% |
| St Andrew Nativity School | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston 4 Celebrations Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Focus on Youth | $85,000 | 3 | 51% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Portland | $5,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities | $1,156,333 | 4 | n/a |
| Music Workshop | $650,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Providence Portland Medical Foundation | $545,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Olive Crest | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Children- Central Oregon | $180,000 | 1 | 10% |
| St Andrew Nativity School | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston 4 Celebrations Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Focus on Youth | $85,000 | 3 | 51% |
| Reading Results | $75,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Youth Music Project | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Regis St Mary Catholic School | $30,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Gig Harbor Kiwanis Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 76% |
| Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friendly House Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Coast Guard Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Germaines Culinary Inc | $10,750 | 1 | 9% |
| Oregon Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Consular Corps Scholarship Fund | $8,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chiles Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Juan Young Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Clark Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Harry a Merlo Foundation Inc · The Jackson Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations
How this is measured
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About Chiles Foundation
- How much does Chiles Foundation give?
- Chiles Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $375,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Chiles Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Human Services (15%), Health (11%).
- Who are Chiles Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Portland ($5.0M), Catholic Charities ($1.2M), Music Workshop ($650k).
- Does Chiles Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chiles Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chiles Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Juan Young Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust.
- Where is Chiles Foundation based?
- Chiles Foundation is based in OR.
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