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The Chancellor Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2019
21
Grants FY2019
9
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

International$18kHealth$12kReligion$11kEmployment$7kEducation$7kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2019 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150
Median grant
9
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$6,000
WEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$3,500
NORTH TAHOE HEBREW CONGREGATION$3,294
MY POSSIBILITIES$1,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$500
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$500
CAMP TAYLOR INC$350
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NORTHERN NEVADA$200
CORP OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS$200
CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO$180
THE BRIDGE SCHOOL$150
MORGAN AUTISM CENTER$125
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION$125
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$100
KQED$45
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTH TAHOE HEBREW CONGREGATION: $4k → 6%THE BRIDGE SCHOOL: $150 → 7%MORGAN AUTISM CENTER: $125 → 8%CORP OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $200 → 10%CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO: $180 → 12%CAMP TAYLOR INC: $350 → 15%CAMP SUMMIT INC: $500 → 5%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HOUSTON: $250 → 16%UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $100 → 14%GRANT HIGH SCHOOL - CONSTITUTION TEAM: $200 → 12%THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $5k → 8%MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 14%JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $1k → 4%WEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $4k → 16%NORTH TAHOE HEBREW CONGREGATION: $3k → 6%THE BRIDGE SCHOOL: $150 → 7%MORGAN AUTISM CENTER: $100 → 8%CORP OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $200 → 10%CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO: $180 → 12%CAMP TAYLOR INC: $350 → 15%MY POSSIBILITIES: $3k → 5%UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $100 → 14%WEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NORTHERN NEVADA: $400 → 10%NORTH TAHOE HEBREW CONGREGATION: $3k → 6%THE BRIDGE SCHOOL: $150 → 7%MORGAN AUTISM CENTER: $100 → 8%CORP OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $149 → 10%CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO: $180 → 12%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $100 → 17%MY POSSIBILITIES: $3k → 5%HILLEL INTERNATIONAL: $40 → 14%WEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $500 → 16%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NORTHERN NEVADA: $400 → 10%OSHER CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: $250 → 10%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $6k → 17%MY POSSIBILITIES: $2k → 5%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES NORTHERN NEVADA: $200 → 10%KQED: $45 → 10%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $6k → 17%KQED: $40 → 10%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $6k → 17%SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $1k → 14%THE PARASOL TAHOE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $400 → 10%THE BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $500 → 17%THE BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2k → 17%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
NV
NJ
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 19 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
12

Total granted

$33k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+38%

Still filing today

79%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $661 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MP
    MY POSSIBILITIES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +20%
  • BF
    BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +22%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +111%
  • JH
    JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +38%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
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
4
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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9
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
10
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
11
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Channel 5 Public Broadcasting Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH TAHOE HEBREW CONGREGATION: $11,054 · OtherNORTH TAHOE HEBREW CONGREGATIONMY POSSIBILITIES: $6,875 · OtherMY POSSIBILITIESBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $3,500 · OtherBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICAJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $1,250 · Other+13 more: $2,809 · Other+13 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $18,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEM…+1 more: $100 · InternationalWEEQUAHIC HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC: $6,000 · EducationWEEQUAHIC HI…The Bridge School: $450 · EducationThe Bridge S…Tahoe Community Foundation: $400 · EducationTahoe Commun…+1 more: $36 · EducationTHE V FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDA…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $1,000 · HealthRONALD MCDON…MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $550 · HealthMUSCULAR DYS…+3 more: $245 · HealthCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $549 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $540 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $125 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $36 · Arts & CultureCAMP TAYLOR INC: $700 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP SUMMIT INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$25,488International$18,100Education$6,886Health$6,795Arts & Culture$1,450Youth Development$1,200Recreation & Sports$1,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $6,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP TAYLOR INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $549 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUMMIT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge School: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTahoe Community Foundation: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORGAN AUTISM CENTER: $325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $83 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chancellor Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chancellor Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Chancellor Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Chancellor Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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