· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 -24%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 299 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chime Scholars Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chime Scholars Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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