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The Chapin Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$124k
Granted FY2023
11
Itemized grants FY2023
6
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$102k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 20
FY2021 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2023
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations The Chapin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20236$102k67%
FY202120$181kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$96kEducation$69kReligion$57kHealth$35kFood & Nutrition$2kInternational$1kArts & Culture$500Animals$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2023.

COMFORTER MISSION$25,000
TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$20,000
TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$15,000
COMFORTER MISSION$10,000
CHS$7,000
COMFORTER MISSION$7,000
LANDON SCHOOL$5,300
TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$5,000
Virginia Hospital Foundation$5,000
LITTLE FLOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$2,000
LITTLE FLOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$500

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About The Chapin Foundation Inc

How much does The Chapin Foundation Inc give?
The Chapin Foundation Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $101,800, out of $123,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Chapin Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (11%), Education (8%), Religion (6%).
Does The Chapin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Chapin Foundation Inc 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.
Where is The Chapin Foundation Inc based?
The Chapin Foundation Inc is based in VA.

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 24 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $126k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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