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Chippie Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$40kReligion$22kHealth$5kCrime & Legal$5kFood & Nutrition$2kPhilanthropy$2kEducation$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Other$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$235k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS$1,000
OFFICE OF CONCERN FOOD PANTRY AT ST CECILIA$500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$200
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$100
02The need
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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 (FY18–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 11%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $400 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 14%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

NY
SD
NJ
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DC
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 8 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$57k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+47%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • FS
    FIRST STEP INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +60%
  • MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK FOUNDLINGgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +63%
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIANgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +129%
  • MU
    Manhattan University
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -9%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
3
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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4
The Veterans and First Responders
Human Services
5
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
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6
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…

Human Services
7
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace

The david lynch foundation for consciousness-based education and world peace (the "foundation or "dlf") is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2005. the foundation helps to prevent and eradicate the epidemic of trauma and toxic…

Philanthropy
8
Women's Rights Without Frontiers International

Women's rights without frontiers, international ("wrwf- or "the organization") is a nonprofit entity supporting the rights of women and girls, first in china, then in other countries' communities. the organization was founded by regina…

International
9
Frontline to Field Foundation

Frontline to field is a nonprofit organization founded from the hearts of two individuals deeply committed to the well-being of those who serve and sacrifice for others. inspired by their personal connections to the military, first…

Recreation & Sports
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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11
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
12
University of Miami
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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 The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust. 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

13 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. 13 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OFFICE OF CONCERN AT ST CECILIA: $21,000 · OtherOFFICE OF CONCERN AT ST CECILIAOUR LADY OF MT CARMEL CHURCH: $21,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF MT CARMEL CHURCHOPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA INC: $2,000 · Other+11 more: $3,800 · Other+11 moreNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDLINGWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,400 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PR…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesWEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN: $5,000 · HealthFIRST STEP INCORPORATED: $4,750 · Crime & LegalMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $4,500 · Community ImprovementVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $500 · PhilanthropyManhattan University: $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $200 · EducationTHE SOAR FOUNDATION: $50 · EducationWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $200 · Environment
Other$47,800Human Services$12,900Health$5,000Crime & Legal$4,750Community Improvement$4,500Philanthropy$1,500Education$1,250Environment$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STEP INCORPORATED: $4,750 over 2y, 20% of budgetMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetManhattan University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOAR FOUNDATION: $50 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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Chippie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chippie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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How do I get to Chippie Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chippie 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 26 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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