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Chobani Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100
Granted FY2020
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Grants FY2020
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States reached
$100
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$3.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$567kFood & Nutrition$326kInternational$184kEducation$181kRecreation & Sports$145kEnvironment$100kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
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States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TENT FOUNDATION$100
02The need
03

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 (FY17–18, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOHAWK VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER FOR REFUGEES: $25k → 16%NORWICH FAMILY YMCA: $4k → 12%MOHAWK VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER FOR REFUGEES: $15k → 16%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

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
TX
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 6 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +218% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
84

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+218%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • TF
    Tent Foundation Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $3.2M · revenue +397% · 72% of their budget
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $184k · revenue +21%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • VO
    VILLAGE OF NEW BERLIN
    one grant, 2018 · $550k
  • WW
    WHOLESOME WAVE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -58%
  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +40%
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.

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Little League Baseball Inc

Little league baseball

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Little League Baseball Inc

Little league baseball

Recreation & Sports
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Little League Baseball Inc

Operate Local Baseball Little League

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Little League Baseball Inc 1221108 Marquette Am Ll

A program of service to youth that establishes the value of teamwork, sportsmanship & fair play. through the proper guidance and exemplary leadership, the little league program assists hundreds of children in developing the qualities of…

Recreation & Sports
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Little League Baseball Inc - Warner Robins American Little League

Little League

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Little League Baseball Inc

youth baseball

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Little League Baseball Inc

To promote youth development

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Rondout Valley Little League Incorporated

To provide little league sponsored baseball to area youth.

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Little League Baseball Inc

Youth group sports - little league baseball

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Little League Baseball Inc Johnstown Little League

To allow children supervised baseball from ages 5 to 12

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Little League Baseball Inc

Little league baseball

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Little League Baseball Inc

Little League Baseball

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Boise Little Leauge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tent Foundation Inc. 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

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 93 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/56
Grantees still filing
45/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tent Foundation Inc: $3,224,031 · PhilanthropyTent Foundation IncIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $122,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $106,750 · PhilanthropyVILLAGE OF NEW BERLIN: $550,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF NEW BERLINIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…New York City Rescue Mission: $80,000 · OtherNew York City Rescue M…SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $60,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW Y…MOHAWK VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER FOR REFUGEES INC: $40,000 · Other+75 more: $189,680 · Other+75 moreWHOLESOME WAVE INC: $200,105 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $100,000 · EnvironmentSave The Children Federation Inc: $183,765 · InternationalUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $84,000 · EducationCornell University: $80,000 · EducationThe New York State FFA Leadership Traini: $41,000 · Youth DevelopmentAPPLE SEEDS INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 · Science & Tech
Philanthropy$3,453,281Other$1,019,680Environment$300,105International$183,765Education$164,000Youth Development$66,000Science & Tech$50,000

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 budgetTent Foundation Inc: $3,224,031 over 3y, 72% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE INC: $200,105 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $183,765 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $122,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $101,750 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Rescue Mission: $80,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York State FFA Leadership Traini: $41,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMOHAWK VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER FOR REFUGEES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAPPLE SEEDS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPFLAG: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Berlin Volunteer Fire Depa: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF NORWICH: $4,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS AT THE PALACE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTWIN FALLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FARMERS MUSEUM INC: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDINA BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMason Youth Organization: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMAGIC VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPeter Stuyvesant Little League Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMagic Valley Baseball and Softball: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHINSDALE LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROSLYN LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBLOOMFIELD BASEBALL LEAGUE THE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHSIDE SUBURBAN LITTLE LEAGUE: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMiami Youth Baseball Association Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH BOISE LITTLE LEAUGE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorthwest Seattle Little League: $1,200 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEXTER BASEBALL CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSS VALLEY LITTLE LEAGUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKENILWORTH-WINNETKA BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RURAL HEALTH NETWORK OF SCNY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHENANGO COUNTY SPCA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $850 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMALIBU LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $850 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRogers Youth Baseball: $750 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

The R C Smith Foundat…Janice Seagraves Fami…The Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
The R C Smith Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The R C Smith Foundation Inc · Janice Seagraves Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Chobani Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chobani Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Chobani Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chobani Foundation Inc 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 93 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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