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Joan and Norman Chapman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joan and Norman Chapman Foundation

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.

$552k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.1MReligion$438kPhilanthropy$307kHuman Services$220kEducation$182kInternational$111kArts & Culture$49kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $373k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEEP MEMORY ALIVE$50,000
NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM$50,000
AM SHALOM$47,000
MAKE-A-WISH ILLINOIS$43,900
ISRAEL TENNIS CENTER FOUNDATION$35,833
SERENITY FOUNDATION$35,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$33,333
CLEVELAND CLINIC LOU RUVO CENTER$28,000
MCLANE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$25,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$18,800
GLENBROOK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL$18,372
THE SELFHELP HOME$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$10,000
MAYO CLINIC$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Belmont Child Care Association: $1k → 6%SERENITY FOUNDATION: $35k → 21%SERENITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 21%SERENITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 21%SERENITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 21%SERENITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%THE SELFHELP HOME: $13k → 14%THE SELFHELP HOME: $13k → 14%THE SELFHELP HOME: $13k → 14%THE SELFHELP HOME: $13k → 14%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $8k → 13%THE SELFHELP HOME: $10k → 14%THE SELFHELP HOME: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%BE LIKE TOM INC: $3k → 14%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 43 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
54

Total granted

$3.0M
$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+37%

Still filing today

47%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionOther
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
    ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $410k · revenue +18%
  • EH
    Endeavor Health Clinical Operations
    6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +22%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $187k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • CF
    CLEVELAND FOUNDATION CLINIC
    one grant, 2020 · $68k
  • GO
    GYNEOCOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY PATIENT SUPPORT
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • KC
    Kellogg Cancer Center
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
2
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
3
Children's Hospital of Chicago Medical Center

We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…

Health
4
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
5
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
6
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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9
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
10
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
11
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
12
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation 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

61 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. 61 of the 116 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
43/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $401,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVEAM SHALOM: $216,500 · OtherAM SHALOMTHE ARK: $190,000 · OtherTHE ARKMCLANE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $80,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $70,900 · OtherCLEVELAND FOUNDATION CLINIC: $68,000 · OtherBIG SHOULDERS FUND SGO: $65,000 · Other+70 more: $588,847 · Other+70 moreADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $410,000 · HealthADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $300,000 · HealthEndeavor Health Clinical OperationsChildren's Hospital Corporation: $186,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $85,100 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hosp…FORE BATTEN FOUNDATION: $42,500 · HealthLOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $40,150 · Health+11 more: $68,000 · Health+11 moreSERENITY FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesTHE SELFHELP HOME INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $16,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $180,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $9,606 · PhilanthropyISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $110,999 · InternationalTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $66,666 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 · EducationTHE LOUISE TUMARKIN ZAZOVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $80,590 · ReligionCOMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK: $10,000 · Religion
Other$1,680,247Health$1,132,250Human Services$226,000Philanthropy$209,606International$110,999Education$106,666Religion$90,590

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 budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $410,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $186,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $180,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSERENITY FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $110,999 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $85,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $80,590 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $70,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SELFHELP HOME INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $66,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORE BATTEN FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $40,150 over 5y, 12% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $28,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO SCULPTURE EXHIBIT: $11,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREMIND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HEART BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LOUISE TUMARKIN ZAZOVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE HAPPINESS CLUB: $3,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RENDINA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER OF CHICAGO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBe Like Tom Inc NFP: $2,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGratitude Generation Inc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SELFHELP HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FORE BATTEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO SCULPTURE EXHIBIT ↗
  • Who funds COMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Joan and Norman Chapman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan and Norman Chapman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to Joan and Norman Chapman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joan and Norman Chapman 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.

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 116 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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