· Private foundation
The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $800k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $250,000 |
| CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD | $75,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA | $75,000 |
| JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICEUSA | $75,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE NY | $50,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF ST AUGUSTINE | $50,000 |
| CITYMEALS ON WHEELS | $50,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI | $50,000 |
| ST STEPHEN MARTYR CHURCH | $30,000 |
| MANHATTAN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| SAINTS PETER AND PAUL CHURCH | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 27% of The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUManhattan University9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +2%
- SOSisters of St Joseph Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +35%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT3× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TBTHE BASILICA OF ST PATRICK'S OLD CATHEDRALone grant, 2024 · $160k
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -42%
- SAST ANSELM RC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…
Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 87 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARITAS CUBANA CORP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Sisters of St Joseph Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chesapeake Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mid Florida Homeless Coalition Inc: 13% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc: 2% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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