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Howard & Bess Chapman Charitable Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$158k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of HOWARD & BESS CHAPMAN CHARITABLE CORP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC$62,500
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ONEIDA$15,000
ONEIDA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$15,000
UNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
MADISON COUNTY CHILDREN'S CAMP$6,550
CHURCH ON THE ROCKS$5,000
HERITAGE FARM$5,000
ONPOINT$5,000
KEYS CORP$5,000
ONEIDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FDTN$3,000
VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$3,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH KARING KITCHEN$3,000
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 (FY18–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $63k → 11%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $38k → 11%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $25k → 11%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $23k → 11%CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC: $20k → 11%ONEIDA AREA DAY CARE CENTER INC: $3k → 11%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+42%

Still filing today

42%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • OH
    ONEIDA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +5% · 30% of their budget
  • CP
    CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $168k · revenue +123%
  • NI
    NYSARC INC MADISON CORTLAND CHAPTER
    3× · 2020–2022 · $38k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • OH
    ONEIDA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue 0% · 55% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • OH
    ORCHARD HILL CLUB
    one grant, 2018 · $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
Oneida County Historical Society Inc

The society's mission is to preserve the past of oneida county and central new york for present and future generations. the society seeks to make this rich heritage readily available to researchers, families and students, enhancing the…

Arts & Culture
2
Seneca County Chamber of Commerce

The seneca county chamber promotes economic growth and development in the seneca count, ny area. it offers an intregrity-based, leading voice for business that is focused on supporting community partnerships, providing education…

3
Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation

Economic development and promotion of the hudson valley region in new york.

Community Improvement
4
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
5
Central Oneida County Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc

To provide ambulance service and emergency medical treatment.

6
State University of New York At Oneonta Foundation Corporation

To support and strengthen the fundraising programs of the state university of new york at oneonta so that gifts and grants are raised for student scholarships, faculty/student research, lectureships, and numerous academic and institutional…

7
State University College At Oneonta Childrens Center Inc

Licensed daycare faciltiy. serving suny oneonta employees, students and the surrounding communities.

8
Wmc-New York Inc

Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…

Health
9
Madison County Elderly Services Inc

To provide nutritional services to the elderly residents of madison county, iowa and southern dallas county, iowa.

Human Services
10
Oneida Health Systems

The mission of oneida health systems is to plan, promote, provide and coordinate the highest quality progressive and comprehensive health care services for the greater oneida area and surrounding communities.

Health
11
Mendon Fire Department Inc

The Mendon Fire Department, Inc. is organized to attract and maintain the necessary manpower to provide fire and emergency medical services to the residents of the Mendon Fire District.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Village Center for Care

The center is funded primarily by patient service fees paid by medicaid, medicare and private insurance.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneida Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Lenox Ambulance Service 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

17 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. 17 of the 32 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ONEIDA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $475,000 · OtherONEIDA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient — $190,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF MADISON COUNTY INC — $75,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MADISON COUNTY INCNYSARC INC MADISON CORTLAND CHAPTER — $38,000 · OtherONEIDA PUBLIC LIBRARY CAMPAIGN COMM — $32,000 · Other+14 more — $119,200 · Other+14 moreCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC — $168,000 · Human ServicesCLEAR PATH FOR…+2 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesONEIDA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION — $80,000 · HealthGREATER LENOX AMBULANCE SERVICE INC — $3,000 · HealthPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE — $35,000 · EducationVERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,500 · EducationMADISON COUNTY CHILDRENS CAMP INC — $36,550 · Recreation & SportsKEYS CORP — $17,400 · Arts & CultureMadison County Historical Society — $6,300 · Arts & CultureONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE FARM INC — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$929,200Human Services$175,500Health$83,000Education$60,500Recreation & Sports$36,550Arts & Culture$28,700Philanthropy$15,000Youth Development$5,000

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 budgetONEIDA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $475,000 over 9y, 30% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC — $168,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetONEIDA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION — $80,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MADISON COUNTY INC — $75,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetNYSARC INC MADISON CORTLAND CHAPTER — $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON COUNTY CHILDRENS CAMP INC — $36,550 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,500 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetKEYS CORP — $17,400 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMadison County Historical Society — $6,300 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LENOX AMBULANCE SERVICE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER ONEIDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $300 over 2y, 0.4% 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 ONEIDA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC
  • Who funds ONEIDA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MADISON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds NYSARC INC MADISON CORTLAND CHAPTER
  • Who funds MADISON COUNTY CHILDRENS CAMP INC
  • Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE
  • Who funds VERNON-VERONA-SHERRILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds KEYS CORP
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds Madison County Historical Society
  • Who funds HERITAGE FARM INC
  • Who funds ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds GREATER LENOX AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
  • Who funds ONEIDA AREA DAYCARE CENTER INC
  • Who funds GREATER ONEIDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Oneida Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Owen T & Alice M Gorman Testamentary Charitable Tr U/W/O Alice M Gorman · United Way of Madison County Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · 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 Howard & Bess Chapman Charitable Corp 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%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Howard & Bess Chapman Charitable Corp?

    Find your warmest path to Howard & Bess Chapman Charitable Corp 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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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