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Chime Scholars 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k253 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k6 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $666k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND INC | $118,000 |
| THE BOTTOM LINE INC | $110,000 |
| OAKLAND PROMISE | $100,000 |
| BAY AREA HYBRID COLLEGE INITIATIVE | $87,650 |
| SCHOLARSHOT | $69,000 |
| KIPP METRO ATLANTA COLLABORATIVE INC | $63,500 |
| THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND | $62,500 |
| THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC | $55,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS | $45,000 |
| HISPANIC ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES | $37,225 |
| UASPIRE INC | $33,000 |
| OAKLAND-ALAMEDA COUNTY COLISEUM FOUNDATION | $19,825 |
| MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC | $18,125 |
| THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
59 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 207 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- TMThurgood Marshall College Fund3× · 2022–2025 · $354k · revenue +28%
- OPOAKLAND PROMISE2× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +32%
- KMKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $149k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AAACHIEVE ATLANTA INCone grant, 2023 · $95k · revenue +7%
- B1BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INCone grant, 2024 · $33k · revenue -18%
- USURBAN STRATEGIES COUNCILone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.
College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…
Onegoal (the organization") is a nonprofit organization incorporated on june 13, 2003 to provide underserved students with the resources, support, and network to earn a postsecondary degree.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To advance students' economic and social mobility by improving public education.
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
10,000 degrees is a leading college success nonprofit in the san francisco bay area. we help students from low-income backgrounds gain access to and complete higher education to positively impact their communities and the world.…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
Our mission is to ensure every student graduates with college acceptance letters, high tech skills, real work experience, and a plan to turn those opportunities into a successful career.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieve Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 299 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHOT ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND PROMISE ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ↗
- Who funds Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State Community College Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND-ALAMEDA COUNTY COLISEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Chime Scholars 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.
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
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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