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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $375,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $125,000 |
| YALE REPERTORY THEATRE ASSOCIATES INC | $100,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| DAVID GEFFEN SCHOOL OF DRAMA AT YALE | $75,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $25,000 |
| SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VOICES OF JUBILEE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $20,000 |
| DAILY HISTORY QUOTE INC | $20,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH(NO KIDS HUNGRY) | $20,000 |
| THE BEACON PROJECT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC | $10,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +25%
- NYNew York Historical Society6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
- SLST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $154k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITY-CLASS OF 1954one grant, 2024 · $100k
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Islesboro Affordable Property. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 92 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Project ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLESBORO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds TEACHING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Affordable Property ↗
- Who funds THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Educational Innovation Inc ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
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.
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
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 Lois Chiles Foundation 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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.
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