Florida · Private foundation
The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k 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 | 28 | $1.3M | 32% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $662k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $775k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $523k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $425k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $349k | 76% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $175k | 20% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Relief Services | $1,395,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Jesuit Refugee Service USA | $375,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc | $265,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Manhattan University | $250,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities USA | $250,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Friends of Caritas Cubana Corp | $190,000 | 4 | 6% |
| United Way of the National Capital Area | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sisters of St Joseph Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good
How this is measured
Compare The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation give?
- The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,338,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (26%), Religion (17%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Relief Services ($1.4M), Jesuit Refugee Service USA ($375k), Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc ($265k).
- Does The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation based?
- The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation is based in FL.
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