How much does Chinn Family Foundation give?

Chinn Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $607,109 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Chinn Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (82%), Human Services (4%), Health (3%).

Who are Chinn Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Colorado State University Foundation ($17k), Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado ($9k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($5k).

Does Chinn Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Chinn Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Chinn Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Colorado Gives Foundation, Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION.

Where is Chinn Family Foundation based?

Chinn Family Foundation is based in CO.

Chinn Family Foundation

Chinn Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Chinn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$607k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$601k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$606kHuman Services$31kHealth$22kAnimals$19kEducation$19kFood & Nutrition$14kInternational$8kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$250k+1 grant · $601k

$601,109

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - CHINN FAMILY DONOR FUND	$601,109
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$6,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$125k · 47 repeat orgs$606k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$125k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+0%

Still filing today

81%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $601k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +99%
NH
Noco Humane
5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +94%
TF
The Food Bank for Larimer County
5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +57%

Funded once

UN
UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $800 · revenue -4%
TH
THE HOPE CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $500
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $500

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health

Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. 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

47 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. 47 of the 63 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/47

Grantees still filing

38/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$652,659Human Services$17,410Education$17,390Animals$15,250Health$12,950Food & Nutrition$11,900Religion$8,500

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Northern ColoradoCO30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Xcel Energy Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · United Way of Larimer County · Blue Ocean Foundation · Northern Colorado United for Youth · Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation Inc · Nebraska Community Foundation · El Pomar 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 Chinn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chinn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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