· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RANCHO CIELO | $15,000 |
| KEY FOR A CURE FOUNDATION | $12,300 |
| COASTAL KIDS HOMECARE | $10,000 |
| SPCA MONTEREY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| HARMONY AT HOME | $5,000 |
| YOSAL | $5,000 |
| CASA OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $2,500 |
| UNITED FOR SAN BENITO | $2,500 |
| SALINAS AREA RIF PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| SALINAS VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $2,500 |
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $2,500 |
| SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY | $2,500 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL PARENTS CLUB | $2,000 |
| ERNIE CAMACHO ED FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MANZANITA LITTLE LEAGUE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $36k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +28% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CKCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue ×13
- RCRANCHO CIELO INC5× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +94%
- SFSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- ESEL SISTEMA USASALINAS INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +18%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL COASTone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MJMonterey Jr Cycling Developmentone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Youth sports
Athletic youth support programs
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
Training, coaching and operating a youth swim team
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
Provide access to youth cricket
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…
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.
Coastside childrens programs (ccp) mission is to provide a safe and caring environment where children learn through experience, play, and friendships - building a foundation for success in school and life. ccp is offering preschool…
The Organization recruits, trains and supports adult community volunteers who are assigned to advocate for youth, ages 0 through 21, who are in the child welfare or juvenile justice system. These volunteers are often the only consistent…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 88 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 COASTAL KIDS HOME CARE ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County ↗
- Who funds A KEY FOR A CURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAX'S HELPING PAWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPE HORSES & KIDS ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Rescue Project ↗
- Who funds SALINAS AREA READING FOR FUN PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EL SISTEMA USASALINAS INC ↗
- Who funds United for San Benito ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds Brighter Bites Inc ↗
- Who funds Monterey Jr Cycling Development ↗
- Who funds SUN STREET CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY YOUTH RECREATION ASSOC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MANZANITA LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SAND CITY VOLLEYBALL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY BULLDOGS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don and Barbara Chapin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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