California · Private foundation
Don and Barbara Chapin 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.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $926k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $85k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $88k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $70k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $70k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $48k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $38k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $48k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $32k | 85% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Kids Home Care | $75,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rancho Cielo Inc | $54,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
| A Key for a Cure Foundation | $16,800 | 4 | 2% |
| Harmony at Home | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ncga Foundation | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Max's Helping Paws Foundation | $13,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Future Citizens Foundation Dba the First Tee of Monterey County | $10,952 | 2 | 0% |
| Hope Horses & Kids | $10,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation
- How much does Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation give?
- Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $85,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Youth Development (19%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
- Who are Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Coastal Kids Home Care ($75k), Rancho Cielo Inc ($55k), Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County ($26k).
- Does Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Don and Barbara Chapin 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 Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Pebble Beach Company Foundation, Sally Hughes Church Foundation.
- Where is Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation based?
- Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation is based in CA.
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