· Private foundation
Chino Cienega 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENRY L STIMSON CENTER | $50,000 |
| WAR LEGACIES PROJECT | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PROJECT RENEW | $50,000 |
| HENRY L STIMSON CENTER | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| ASHOKA | $30,008 |
| LAUDATO SI' MOVEMENT | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK | $25,000 |
| A ROCHA USA | $25,000 |
| NEO PHILANTROPHY INC | $20,000 |
| NEW PA PROJECT | $20,000 |
| WORKING AMERICA | $20,000 |
| FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY | $20,000 |
| NOTLEY IMPACT | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Chino Cienega Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WLWAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +42% · 53% of their budget
- THTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $377k · revenue +153%
- TGThe George Washington University7× · 2017–2023 · $320k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- ACACCELERATE CHANGE INCone grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue -7%
- GGGround Game Fundone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- VNVIETNAMESE NOM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · 52% of their budget
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.
Research and education of United Nations activities
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 57 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
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 WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PROJECT RENEW ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds New Pennsylvania Project ↗
- Who funds EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACE DIRECT INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION YOUTH MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Ground Game Fund ↗
- Who funds FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE NOM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOTLEY IMPACT ↗
- Who funds Colorado Times Recorder ↗
- Who funds RTC IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR RECONCILIATION & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Center for Common Ground ↗
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: Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The McKnight Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chino Cienega Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chino Cienega Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Action Youth Media Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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