· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $149k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD READER | $104,530 |
| STANFORD | $40,000 |
| MUSIC CENTER CENTER DANCE ARTS (CDA) | $38,000 |
| CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $31,667 |
| SERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $19,270 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| STATE STREET BALLET | $8,600 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA & BALLET | $5,000 |
| THE WEBB SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CHARITY GLOBAL INC5× · 2018–2023 · $314k · revenue +17%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +220%
- TSTHE SAPLING FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $35k · revenue +911%
Funded once
- AFAlbertine Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $20k
- SSERPENTINEone grant, 2023 · $19k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
How this is measured
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 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WORLDREADERORG ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds CRANE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Albertine Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAPLING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Tilting Futures Incorporated ↗
- Who funds STATE STREET BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE SKATEPARK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MAVEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GRABHORN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE WEBB SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Coastal Ranches Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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