Skip to content
Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197 at a glance

· Private foundation

Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$84k
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

85% of Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197 named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $84k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’19
5
’20
10
’21
8
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Philanthropy$702kPublic Benefit$100kArts & Culture$98kHealth$55kReligion$10kEducation$6kYouth Development$5kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2021 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k11 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Distinguished Lecturer Series Foundation Inc$50,000
NorthShore University HealthSystem$10,000
Vero Beach Museum of Art$6,500
The Women's Board Rush University Medical Center$5,000
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$4,890
Cleveland Clinic Indian River Foundation$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Community Church$1,000
Indian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation$1,000
University of Arizona Foundation$1,000
John's Island Foundation$1,000
Whole Family Health Center$500
Candles Holocaust Museum & Education Center$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $100) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Journey Care: $100 → 14%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$269k · 12 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$269k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+53%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
HealthArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • RT
    RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $51k · revenue +90%
  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $27k · revenue +979%
  • EH
    Endeavor Health Clinical Operations
    3× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • GF
    GENEVA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • IH
    Indian Hill Scholarship Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • SH
    SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +656%
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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

—
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Indiana University Health Foundation Inc

Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.

Health
9
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
10
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
11
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
12
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Southern Highlands Reserve 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

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $697,591 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyDISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Public BenefitDISTINGUISH…RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $50,760 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE T…VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $26,500 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH …Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: $19,890 · Arts & CultureColonial Wi…The Women's Board Rush University Medical Center: $10,000 · OtherWoman's Board of Rush University Medical Center: $10,000 · OtherKENILWORTH UNION CHURCH: $8,500 · OtherGENEVA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · Other+6 more: $3,400 · OtherEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $20,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthIndian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation: $2,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,000 · EducationSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentElea Institute: $100 · Human Services
Philanthropy$701,591Public Benefit$100,000Arts & Culture$97,150Other$39,900Health$34,500Education$4,000Environment$1,000Human Services$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $697,591 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $50,760 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $19,890 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIndian Hill Club Scholarship Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDLES: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOLD ELM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElea Institute: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Whole Family Health Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197?

Find your warmest path to Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197 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 25 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Faris & Christine Chesley Foundation Dtd 103197’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home