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Erie Chapman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Community Improvement$34kReligion$15kHealth$13kEducation$12kArts & Culture$5kPhilanthropy$2kYouth Development$1kHuman Services$350Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,100
Median grant
3
States reached
$221k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO HEALTH RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION$10,000
WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH$1,100
FEED MY SHEEP HOMELESS MINISTRY$100
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHATTANOOGA$50
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALIVE HOSPICE: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$51k · 5 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$51k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+1%

Still filing today

40%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue -54%
  • MV
    MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +15%
  • WC
    WOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4k

Funded once

  • AS
    ASCENSION ST THOMAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • OA
    OZ ARTS NASHVILLE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
2
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
3
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

4
JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion
5
Mercy College of Ohio

Mercy College, a Catholic institution with a focus on healthcare, educates and inspires students to lead and serve in the global community.

Health
6
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

7
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
8
Breck School

We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.

Education
9
Crestwell Higher Learning School Inc

Education

Education
10
The Bement School Inc

The bement school provides an education based on time-honored school traditions and values for children in kindergarten through ninth grade, day and boarding. from the classrooms to the dorms, we live and learn as a family, while…

Education
11
The Berkeley School

To ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts and engage in a changing world.

12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Nonprofit Management Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kemper Hall Alumnae Associationinc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASCENSION ST THOMAS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherASCENSION ST THOMAS FOUNDATIONOHIO HEALTH RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherOHIO HEALTH RIVERSIDE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOZ ARTS NASHVILLE — $5,000 · OtherOZ ARTS NASHVILLEWOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $4,175 · OtherWOODMONT CHRISTIAN CHURCH+8 more — $2,725 · Other+8 moreCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC — $34,100 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INCMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $12,000 · EducationMAUMEE VALLEY C…ALIVE HOSPICE INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesColumbus Jewish Foundation — $1,300 · PhilanthropyBEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200 · PhilanthropyBeWell in School — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC — $300 · Housing & ShelterNorthwestern University — $165 · Recreation & Sports
Other$36,900Community Improvement$34,100Education$12,000Human Services$1,500Philanthropy$1,500Youth Development$1,000Housing & Shelter$300Recreation & Sports$165

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC — $34,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus Jewish Foundation — $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBal d Hiver Benefit Inc — $350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $165 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC
  • Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds ALIVE HOSPICE INC
  • Who funds Columbus Jewish Foundation
  • Who funds BeWell in School
  • Who funds Bal d Hiver Benefit Inc
  • Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC
  • Who funds BEXLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Northwestern University
  • Who funds KEMPER HALL ALUMNAE ASSOCIATIONINC

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.

The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Erie Chapman 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Erie Chapman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Erie Chapman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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