How much does Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund give?

Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund reported 39 grants totaling $1,200,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (16%), International (14%), Environment (11%).

Who are Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Childhood Cancer Organizat ($845k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($539k), Global Pediatric Alliance ($368k).

Does Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund 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 Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lynn R & Karl E Prickett Fund, Seattle Foundation, The Burning Foundation.

Where is Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund based?

Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund is based in NC.

Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund

Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$120k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.5MInternational$1.4MEnvironment$996kAnimals$829kArts & Culture$724kHuman Services$521kRecreation & Sports$512kYouth Development$492kOther$0

02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $29k
$10k–50k21 grants · $537k
$50k–250k9 grants · $635k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZATION	$120,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$90,000
SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL	$90,000
WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER	$60,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS	$60,000
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS	$60,000
Individual grant recipient	$55,000
SOUNDXPERIENCE	$50,000
NORTH BAY CNA	$50,000
GROTON HILL MUSIC	$40,000
SUPER HEROES HUMANE SOCIETY	$40,000
LITTLE VILLAGE FOUNDATION	$40,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC	$36,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$35,000
GLOBAL PEDIATRIC ALLIANCE	$35,000

02The need

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, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.1M · 59 repeat orgs$936k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.1M

$793k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+57%

Still filing today

86%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

AC
AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT
8× · 2017–2024 · $845k · revenue +46%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $539k · revenue +50%
GP
Global Pediatric Alliance
8× · 2017–2024 · $368k · revenue +174% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $112k · revenue +138%
GH
GLEN HIGHLAND FARM INC
one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -9%
MH
MALAMA HULEIAgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue ×22

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.

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified

California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment

Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy

Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groton Hill Music Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Bay Cna. 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

90 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. 90 of the 108 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

88/90

Grantees still filing

72/90

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,286,109Arts & Culture$917,733Human Services$800,784International$678,624Animals$599,300Health$591,700Environment$535,800

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.

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.

Lynn R & Karl E Prickett FundNC74.8× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lynn R & Karl E Prickett Fund · Seattle Foundation · The Burning Foundation · Patagoniaorg · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · New Priorities Foundation co Third Plateau · The Northwest Fund for the Environment · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Innovia 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 Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gunzenhauser Chapin Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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