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Chilton Trust 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.

$204k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$376kRecreation & Sports$47kArts & Culture$11kReligion$8kHealth$7kYouth Development$3kPhilanthropy$1kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
$44,580
Median grant
4
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of Acadia$79,185
Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas$46,000
The Everglades Foundation$44,580
Captains For Clean Water Inc$25,000
Visions Services for the Blind and Visually Impair$4,976
Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin$4,000
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 (FY23–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $500 → 9%Visions Services for the Blind and Visually Impair: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MI
NY
CT
VA
NC
SC
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$357k · 4 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$357k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • FO
    Friends of Acadia
    4× · 2022–2025 · $201k · revenue +88%
  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $142k · revenue +41%
  • MH
    MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • SC
    South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +97%
  • GS
    GULF STREAM COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Conservation Florida Inc

Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.

Environment
2
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
3
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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4
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
5
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
6
Natural Lands Trust Inc

Saves open space, cares for nature, and connects people to the outdoors. (See schedule O)

Environment
7
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
8
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
9
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
10
United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment
11
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
12
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Captains for Clean Water Inc; the most unlike its peers is Visionsservices for the Blind and Visually Impaired. 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

17 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. 17 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Friends of Acadia: $201,385 · EnvironmentFriends of AcadiaTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $142,180 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INCCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC+2 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas: $46,000 · Recreation & SportsYouth Golf …+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsMESIVTA YESHIVA RABBI CHAIM BERLIN: $8,000 · OtherGULF STREAM COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · Other+1 more: $250 · OtherMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $5,103 · Arts & CultureTHE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,260 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $650 · Arts & CultureVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $4,976 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $500 · Human ServicesTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $1,200 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INC: $346 · PhilanthropyRoper St Francis Foundation: $1,500 · HealthALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Environment$376,065Recreation & Sports$46,500Other$14,250Arts & Culture$10,513Human Services$5,476Philanthropy$1,546Health$1,500Housing & Shelter$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Acadia: $201,385 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $142,180 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas: $46,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $5,103 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $346 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Triangle Community Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mather Homestead Foundation: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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

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How do I get to Chilton Trust Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chilton Trust 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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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