· Private foundation
The Chester Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $206k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ACADEMY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNI | $375,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIV FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| CHESTER CO PUBLIC ED FDTN | $30,750 |
| CHESTER AREA UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| THE TURNING POINT OF CHESTER | $20,000 |
| CHRIST CENTRAL CENTER OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| GRASP | $20,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE COMMUNITY CARE | $10,000 |
| FLLWSHP OF CHRSTN ATHLTS | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $935k · revenue +143%
- WUWinthrop University Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $155k · revenue +66%
- TTTHE TURNING POINT OF CHESTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- III58 INC HOUSING INTIATIVEone grant, 2023 · $90k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $75k
- SPSAMARITANS PURSE - UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule o for form 990, part iii, line 1 - organization's mission
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…
The Lancaster County Society for Historical Preservation LCSHPs mission is to preserve and protect buildings and sites of historic interest in Lancaster County SC; to advance historic preservation as an instrument of economic and social…
To deliver high-quality medical care and essential pharmaceuticals with unwavering compassion and respect. we focus our efforts on individuals aged 12 to 64 who find themselves without the safety net of medicaid, medicare, or any other…
Provide food & aid for people in need
To prepare principled leaders for faith-informed public service.
To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.
The methodist church is a global denomination that opens hearts, opens minds and opens doors through active engagement with our world. the mission of the methodist church is to make disciples of jesus christ for the transformation of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Chester Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.