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Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$150k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$150k27%
FY20238$108k50%
FY20225$55kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$135kHealth$125kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$18kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Epiphany School$70,00030%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska$60,00030%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$60,00030%
Denise Louie Education center$30,00030%
A Childs Notebook$30,00027%
Swedish Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
Ma-Tsu Temple of USA$8,0002n/a
Operation Nightwatch Inc$5,00010%
Swedish Medical Center Foundation$5,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jackson S and March F Chao 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.

About Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation

How much does Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation give?
Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (40%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Epiphany School ($70k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska ($60k), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ($60k).
Does Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation based?
Jackson S and March F Chao Foundation is based in WA.

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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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