· Public charity
The American Chestnut Foundation
To return the iconic american chestnut to its native range.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $222k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $83,254 |
| UNIV OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $81,058 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY | $57,999 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $33,502 |
| PA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT | $25,000 |
| HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR | $15,216 |
| MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER OF TACF | $13,000 |
| MAINE CHAPTER OF TACF | $11,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $5,623 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +205%
- UOUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $306k · revenue +80%
THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2025 · $207k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $45k
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -2%
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $12k
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 Penn State Research Foundations mission is to foster and advance scientific research which includes creating, purchasing, holding and licensing of rights for inventions, designs and intellectual property of The Pennsylvania State…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To foster and support research at west virginia university (wvu) and to provide evaluation, development, patenting, management and marketing services for inventions by the faculty, staff, and students of wvu.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
the south carolina research foundation operates for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, the university of south carolina. These activities include but are not limited to promoting, encouraging, and aiding scientific research…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds University of New England ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The American Chestnut Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Chestnut Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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