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The Chapman Foundation Co Steven C Chapman at a glance

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The Chapman Foundation Co Steven C Chapman

$10k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$69kEducation$32kReligion$11kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$1kInternational$400Food & Nutrition$250Recreation & Sports$100Other$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$995
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN ACADEMY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,250
CLEARVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH$500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHAOHANNAH'S HOPE: $50k → 4%SHAOHANNAH'S HOPE: $15k → 4%SHAOHANNAH'S HOPE: $3k → 4%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$110k · 3 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$110k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+59%

Still filing today

33%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • SH
    SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $68k · revenue -7%
  • CP
    CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $36k
  • HC
    HARRISON CHILHOWEE BAPTIST ACADEMY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $6k

Funded once

  • BH
    Both Hands Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +117%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +38%
  • GM
    GOSPEL MUSIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Angels in Africa
International
2
Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…

Religion
3
Cross Made Me Ministries
Religion
4
Miracles From Heaven
International
5
Eyewitness Missions
Philanthropy
6
United Saints Worldwide

United Saints is committed to taking the Gospel to both major cities and the most remote regionsreaching places like the Amazon Jungle and beyondwith the power and love of Jesus.

Religion
7
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
8
Orphans Hope International
—
9
One Life Ministries
Religion
10
Our Amazing Grace's Light Shines On Inc
Human Services
11
Be Hope International
Religion
12
The Grace Upon Grace Mooty Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shaohannahs Hope Inc dba Show Hope; the most unlike its peers is The Brick Cross. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $67,800 · Human ServicesSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC: $36,000 · OtherCHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INCHARRISON CHILHOWEE BAPTIST ACADEMY: $6,000 · OtherHARRISON CHILHOWEE BAPTIST ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $4,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+7 more: $3,250 · Other+7 moreYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $200 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 · Health
Human Services$68,800Other$49,500Youth Development$1,000Education$200Health$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 budgetSHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE: $67,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBoth Hands Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPRY TRUST FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMissionary Athletes International and Charlotte Eagles Inc: $100 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.

The Community Foundat…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationRaymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Chapman Foundation Co Steven C Chapman funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chapman Foundation Co Steven C Chapman. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 15 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 (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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