Missouri · Private foundation
Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma
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.
- $140k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 20 | $140k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $140k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $140k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $190k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $222k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $170k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet Palm Beach Inc | $107,500 | 6 | 14% |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | $100,188 | 4 | 0% |
| Easter Seals Florida Inc | $56,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Everglades Law Center Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Boca Ballet Theatre Company | $46,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Lake Worth Waterkeeper Inc | $33,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc | $32,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Feeding South Florida Inc | $31,938 | 4 | 0% |
| Andrew Red Harris Foundation Inc | $28,500 | 6 | 5% |
| St Georges Center Inc dba St George Table | $26,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma 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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Mestal Foundation · Extraordinary Charities Inc · The Mirasol Foundation Inc · Split Rock Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma
- How much does Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma give?
- Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma reported 20 grants totaling $140,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (23%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ballet Palm Beach Inc ($108k), Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc ($100k), Easter Seals Florida Inc ($57k).
- Does Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma 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 Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, United Way of Palm Beach County Inc, The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc.
- Where is Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma based?
- Robert Lee & Thomas M Chastain-Ma is based in MO.
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