New York · Private foundation
Lois Chiles Foundation
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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Lois Chiles Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $1.1M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $1.3M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $2.0M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $417k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $685k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $590k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Museum of Natural History | $1,725,000 | 6 | 1% |
| New York Historical Society | $1,076,000 | 6 | 1% |
| St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc | $154,150 | 4 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Beacon Project | $105,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Bank for New York City | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lois Chiles Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation · The Albright Foundation · Palace Head Foundation Inc · Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust · Pendleton Mazer Family Fund · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lois Chiles Foundation
- How much does Lois Chiles Foundation give?
- Lois Chiles Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $1,085,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lois Chiles Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Health (13%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
- Who are Lois Chiles Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American Museum of Natural History ($1.7M), New York Historical Society ($1.1M), St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc ($154k).
- Does Lois Chiles Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lois Chiles Foundation 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 Lois Chiles Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Windhover Foundation, The Albright Foundation.
- Where is Lois Chiles Foundation based?
- Lois Chiles Foundation is based in NY.
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