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The Chairman's Cup Foundation 1504-1015001863

To monetarily assist other charitable organizations to promote charitable, religious, educational, scientific and literary purposes.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$1.6MPublic Benefit$125kArts & Culture$105kEducation$87kHealth$26kCivil Rights$20kYouth Development$20kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $148k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
$41,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUSHATTA TRIBE OF LOUISIANA$1,587,546
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS$45,000
MCNEESE FOUNDATION$41,000
SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN ARTS$25,000
UNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH INC$20,000
CHURCH OF THE KING$17,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARCO A COMMUNITY RESOURCE: $6k → 24%ASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$175k · 3 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +104% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$175k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+22%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +35%
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +104%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC HERSHEY DIVISION OFFICE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -19%
  • AO
    ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
2
Centenary College of Louisiana

Provide undergraduate and graduate education in a variety of programs to approximately 600 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.

3
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
4
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University

The lac courte oreilles ojibwe university mission is to provide anishinaabe communities with post-secondary and continuing education while advancing the language, culture, and history of the ojibwe. in carrying out the mission, the lac…

5
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
6
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Institute of American Indian Arts & Alaska Native

To provide education and instruction in the scholarly study and preservation of indian art to empower creativity and leadership in native arts and cultures through higher education, life-long learning and outreach.

Education
10
Lafayette College

Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…

Education
11
Oglala Lakota College

The mission which emanates from the charter of the oglala sioux tribe is to educate students for professional and vocational employment opportunities in lakota country. the college will graduate well-rounded students grounded in…

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Univ of Louisiana At Lafayette Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COUSHATTA TRIBE OF LOUISIANA — $1,587,546 · OtherCOUSHATTA TRIBE OF LOUISIANANATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS FUND — $125,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS FUND+8 more — $104,000 · Other+8 moreMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $41,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University — $30,000 · EducationUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $6,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF OUACHITA — $5,738 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,816,546Education$87,000Arts & Culture$80,000Youth Development$20,000Human Services$15,738Philanthropy$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS FUND — $125,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED NATIONAL INDIAN TRIBAL YOUTH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATION ON AMERICAN INDIAN AFFAIRS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF OUACHITA — $5,738 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Chairman's Cup Foundation 1504-1015001863 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to The Chairman's Cup Foundation 1504-1015001863?

    Find your warmest path to The Chairman's Cup Foundation 1504-1015001863 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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