Florida · Private foundation
The Chatham Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,025,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Chatham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $2.1M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $1.8M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $1.1M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $673k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Constitution Center | $2,550,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Whyy Inc | $1,968,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania | $1,660,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The People's Light & Theatre Company | $800,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Duke University | $350,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity | $345,000 | 3 | 39% |
| St James School | $302,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St Matthews Episcopal Church | $275,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Pittsburgh | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc | $155,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Chatham Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The 1830 Family Foundation 2138-00-42 · Hamilton Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Chatham Foundation
- How much does The Chatham Foundation give?
- The Chatham Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $2,091,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Chatham Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (68%), Human Services (14%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Chatham Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Constitution Center ($2.5M), Whyy Inc ($2.0M), Episcopal Community Services of The Diocese of Pennsylvania ($1.7M).
- Does The Chatham Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chatham Foundation 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Chatham Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw, The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is The Chatham Foundation based?
- The Chatham Foundation is based in FL.
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