California · Private foundation
Otis & Elizabeth Chandler 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.
- $268k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $19,270
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $104,530
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 | 9 | $228k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $197k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $244k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $222k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $270k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $136k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $157k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $203k | 68% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldreaderorg | $928,159 | 9 | 7% |
| Charity Global Inc | $314,080 | 5 | 0% |
| Crane Country Day School | $85,234 | 3 | 0% |
| Albertine Foundation | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends of the Paris Opera and Ballet Inc | $36,606 | 5 | 2% |
| The Sapling Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Marin Country Day School | $32,015 | 3 | 0% |
| Tilting Futures Incorporated | $15,320 | 3 | 0% |
| State Street Ballet | $13,600 | 2 | 0% |
| The Skatepark Project | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 29 grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($253k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
Compare Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation with peer funders
About Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation
- How much does Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation give?
- Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $268,167 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Worldreaderorg ($928k), Charity Global Inc ($314k), Crane Country Day School ($85k).
- Does Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Otis & Elizabeth Chandler 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 Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation based?
- Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation is based in CA.
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