· Private foundation
The Chester Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LYNN UNIVERSITY INC | $400,000 |
| CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PASSTHROUGHS | $6 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULYNN UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +18%
- MPMiddleton Place Foundation2× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue -15%
- DBDELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- PAPHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVERone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +53%
- CCCOMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER OF DELRAY BEACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +44%
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Canterbury school is pk3-12, coeducational, college preparatory day school with approximately 650 students. the school is dedicated to academic excellence within a caring and supportive community emphasizing character, leadership and…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…
How this is measured
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 10 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 LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds DELRAY BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER OF DELRAY BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds GULF STREAM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chester Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chester Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Barry University Inc: 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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