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James B Chanin Foundation Inc at a glance

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James B Chanin Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$41kEducation$31kCivil Rights$30kFood & Nutrition$25kArts & Culture$22kHuman Services$21kPhilanthropy$12kCrime & Legal$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALAMEDA COUNTY FOOD BANK$15,000
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$12,500
LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS$10,000
UC BERKELEY$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES$6,000
HIAS$5,500
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA$5,000
NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM$3,000
KQED$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD TEXAS$3,000
TRYBE INC$2,500
CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA$2,500
LA CLINICA$2,500
ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES$2,500
OAKLAND PARKS AND REC$2,000
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 (FY24–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $6k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $1k → 15%THE JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $1k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $1k → 15%TRYBE INC: $5k → 10%TRYBE INC: $3k → 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

IL
NY
OH
PA
RI
CA
MD
AZ
NC
LA
MS
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of James B Chanin Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

James B Chanin Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$184k · 30 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
7

Total granted

$184k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +22%
  • JA
    JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IU
    ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    AMER FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF OAKLAND PARKS
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Alameda County Homeless Action Center

HAC assists homeless and mentally ill clients in the long and difficult process of becoming eligible for SSI and MediCal benefits. HAC provides assistance with other public benefits that clients need in the interim to survive until their…

Housing & Shelter
3
Legal Aid Association of California

The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…

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4
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
5
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
6
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
7
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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8
Family Violence Law Center

FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…

Crime & Legal
9
Aids Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area

Our mission is to advance and protect the rights, dignity, and health of people living with hiv/aids in the bay area. continued on schedule owe accomplish this through direct legal representation by one of our staff attorneys, by careful…

Health
10
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County

We use the law to make the social safety net work for everyone in San Mateo County. We represent clients, empower people to advocate for themselves, and fix broken systems through policy change.

Crime & Legal
11
Legal Access Alameda

Legal Access Alameda provides free direct legal assistance to Alameda Countys low-income population by mobilizing volunteer attorneys to provide pro bono service.

Crime & Legal
12
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alameda Health System Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 55 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
8/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKUC BERKELEY: $24,000 · OtherUC BERKELEYLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area: $20,000 · OtherLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay AreaTEMPLE SINAI: $11,500 · OtherTEMPLE SINAIPLANNED PARENTHOOD TEXAS: $6,000 · Other+31 more: $57,000 · Other+31 moreALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $17,500 · HealthALAMEDA HEA…Street Level Health Project: $4,000 · HealthStreet Leve…ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $2,500 · HealthASIAN HEALT…+1 more: $500 · HealthJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…TRYBE INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTRYBE INCJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $2,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASS…HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERR…SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP: $4,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureHendy Woods Community Inc: $4,000 · EnvironmentAnderson Valley Land Trust: $4,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $4,500 · Crime & LegalLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $2,000 · Crime & LegalHIAS INC: $5,500 · InternationalKIDS CARE EVERYWHERE: $1,000 · International
Other$143,500Health$24,500Human Services$22,500Arts & Culture$17,000Environment$10,000Crime & Legal$8,500International$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRYBE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHendy Woods Community Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetHEALTH ACCESS OF CALIFORNIA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetStreet Level Health Project: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnderson Valley Land Trust: $4,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKQED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMidwest Academy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Marin Scholarship Program: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CARE EVERYWHERE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe East Oakland Collective: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Historical Radio Society: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $500 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.

Marcy & Leona Chanin …The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Amalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropyTides CenterThe California Endowm…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…
Marcy & Leona Chanin Foundation IncCA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marcy & Leona Chanin Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Tides Center · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment 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 James B Chanin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James B Chanin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 55 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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