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Frank and Yetta Chaiken Foundation Inc at a glance

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Frank and Yetta Chaiken Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$289kPhilanthropy$93kEducation$91kHuman Services$10kHealth$5kArts & Culture$5kCivil Rights$3kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$250
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$54,300
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE$30,000
SIEGEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$4,300
JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SELAWARE$600
ACLU OF DELAWARE$500
Individual grant recipient$360
REACH RIVERSIDE$250
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS$200
FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE$200
HEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS$200
HADASSAH INC$180
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$150
WHYY$100
TALLEYVILLE FIRE COMPANY$75
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200 → 8%FOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $100 → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $100 → 6%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST INC: $50 → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST INC: $50 → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST INC: $50 → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST INC: $50 → 10%CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST INC: $50 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CO
VA
MD
DE
KS
DC
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.
$395k · 40 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
20

Total granted

$395k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+4%

Still filing today

70%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthEducationInternationalOther
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

  • KC
    KRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +49%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $89k · revenue +2%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • AC
    American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $600 · revenue -8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $360
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
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
3
Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.

Crime & Legal
4
Delaware State Education Association Inc

Advocate for the rights and interests of its members and outstanding public education for all students.

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5
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
6
Wilmington University Inc

Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…

Education
7
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
8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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10
American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Inc

The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.

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11
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.

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12
Delphi Schools Inc

Delphi school's mission is to draw out the best in every student through effective educational materials and empower young adults to bring positive change in the world through reason, creativity and integrity.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Delaware; the most unlike its peers is International Essential Tremor Foundation. 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

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION: $152,200 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONKRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC: $130,000 · OtherKRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC: $91,091 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INCUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $89,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE+42 more: $30,030 · Other+42 moreOPERADELAWARE INC: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $450 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY: $450 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC: $200 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $150 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · Arts & CultureMILTON & HATTIE KUTZ HOME INC: $675 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC: $600 · HealthNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES: $300 · HealthInternational Essential Tremor Foundation: $90 · HealthAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc: $600 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $400 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $150 · Civil RightsALBERT EINSTEIN ACADEMY: $600 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $200 · EducationTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $100 · EducationUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE: $750 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $500 · PhilanthropyFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $1,100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$492,421Arts & Culture$1,850Health$1,665Civil Rights$1,450Education$1,400Philanthropy$1,250Food & Nutrition$1,100

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 budgetKRISTOL CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE INC: $130,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC: $91,091 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $89,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERNARD AND RUTH SIEGEL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DELAWARE INC: $4,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $1,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DELAWARE: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON & HATTIE KUTZ HOME INC: $675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN ACADEMY: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPERADELAWARE INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY: $450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE at GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNERS' PLACE: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTALLEYVILLE FIRE COMPANY INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Essential Tremor Foundation: $90 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREAD-ALOUD DELAWARE INC: $75 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FUND OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $75 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.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…United Way of DelawareWelfare Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Chichester Dupont Fou…Crestlea Foundation I…Wsfs Cares FoundationI Could Do Great Thin…Samuel & Sarah Greenb…The Diane and Harry L…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Welfare Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · I Could Do Great Things Foundation · Samuel & Sarah Greenbaum Fund · The Diane and Harry Levin Foundation

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 Frank and Yetta Chaiken Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Yetta Chaiken Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Reach Riverside Development Corp: 100% of income from government
  • Delaware Humanities Council: 100% of income from government
  • Children and Families First: 87% of income from government
  • United Way of Delaware: 58% of income from government
  • Read-Aloud Delaware Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Sojourners' Place: 30% of income from government
  • The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc: 19% of income from government
  • National Association of School Nurses: 15% of income from government
  • Delaware Symphony Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Operadelaware Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Music School of Delaware Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Delaware Theatre Company: 8% of income from government
  • Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Albert Einstein Academy: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Frank and Yetta Chaiken Foundation Inc 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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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