· Private foundation
Otis & Bettina 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $250,000 |
| FOOD SHARE INC | $200,000 |
| ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN | $100,000 |
| HELP OF OJAI | $100,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RADIANT CHURCH | $25,000 |
| LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE | $23,650 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| OJAI YOUTH ENTERTAINERS STUDIO | $5,000 |
| ZEFFY INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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 +40% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +285%
- OVOJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FDN8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +72%
- HOHELP OF OJAI INC9× · 2017–2025 · $705k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- ADAlzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Asscoone grant, 2019 · $235k
- MHMLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -91%
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +84%
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Our mission is to continue the healing ministry of jesus christ, "to make man whole," in a setting of advancing medical science and to provide a stimulating clinical and research environment for the education of physicians, nurses, and…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ojai Community Farmers Market. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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 DIRECT RELIEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds OJAI VALLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FDN ↗
- Who funds HELP OF OJAI INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds MLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LA WYLD ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVING EDUCATION COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART ALLIANCE INC DBA IFAM ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds OJAI COMMUNITY FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Ojai Raptor Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust · David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · California Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Otis & Bettina Chandler 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.
- Southern Nazarene University — 1% 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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