· Private foundation
Don and Barbara Chapin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COASTAL KIDS HOMECARE | $10,000 |
| RANCHO CIELO | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $5,000 |
| HARMONY AT HOME | $5,000 |
| MONTEREY JR CYCLING DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| YOSAL | $5,000 |
| NORTH MONTEREY COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNITED FOR SAN BENITO | $5,000 |
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $2,500 |
| CASA OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $2,500 |
| THE AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY | $2,500 |
| DOOR TO HOPE | $2,500 |
| NORTH COUNTY BULLDOGS | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CKCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue ×13
- RCRANCHO CIELO INC4× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +73%
- MHMAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- ESEL SISTEMA USASALINAS INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +18%
- NCNORTH COUNTY YOUTH RECREATION ASSOCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -38%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL COASTone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Youth sports
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
Monterey County Soccer Club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive development of our youth through their participation in a safe health and affordable soccer program that is fun and rewarding for who participate
Training, coaching and operating a youth swim team
It is the mission of MCFC to provide the highest level of soccer to the youth of Monterey County while maintaining good sportsmanship values with quality coaching. Our goal is help young soccer players develop not only into better soccer…
Marin casa provides a voice for abused, neglected and abandoned youth in the marin county juvenile court system. our goal is to see every youth thrive in a safe, permanent and supportive home. as sworn officers of the court, our volunteer…
California Magic SC is a community-based club whose mission is to educate, inspire,and empower youth in a positive way through the beautiful game of soccer.While this small and select club is committed to high achievement in soccer,the…
The Mendocino County Sports Academy operates a sports program that benefits the youth of Mendocino County. MCSA is dedicated to 1) Teaching sports with an emphasis on age appropriate development 2) Teaching the ideals of sports, including:…
To promote safe bicyling for everyday transportation and recreation. this is accomplished by working with local jurisdictions to design improved bicycle facilities, identifying project funding, and providing countywide bicycling education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salinas Regional Sports Authority and the most unlike its peers is Peacock Acres. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COASTAL KIDS HOME CARE ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPE HORSES & KIDS ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Rescue Project ↗
- Who funds EL SISTEMA USASALINAS INC ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc ↗
- Who funds SALINAS AREA READING FOR FUN PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds United for San Benito ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY YOUTH RECREATION ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SUN STREET CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
- Who funds Monterey Jr Cycling Development ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds A KEY FOR A CURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAND CITY VOLLEYBALL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY BULLDOGS INC ↗
- Who funds SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds MANZANITA LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY AIRSHOW ASSOC INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Sally Hughes Church Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Andrew & Phyllis D'Arrigo Charitable Foundation · Tanimura Family Foundation · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Community Foundation for San Benito County · The Talbott Family Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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