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The Chew 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$998,736
Organizations funded a year
1 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Chew Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterReligionPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$1.1M43%
FY20241$101k0%
FY20238$235k25%
FY20226$220k17%
FY202113$123k38%
FY202010$75k20%
FY201916$568k19%
FY201815$540k53%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.8MHealth$2.0MHousing & Shelter$645kReligion$226kInternational$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stewpot Community Services Inc$435,000511%
The Mustard Seed Inc$170,00082%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$160,00080%
Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana$141,2252n/a
Vhl Alliance Inc$105,00073%
St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc$100,00022%
Mission First Inc$85,00052%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc$70,00070%
Samaritan's Purse$50,00010%
Magnolia Speech School$50,00041%
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All grantees of The Chew Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stewpot Community Services Inc$435,000511%
The Mustard Seed Inc$170,00082%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$160,00080%
Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana$141,2252n/a
Vhl Alliance Inc$105,00073%
St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc$100,00022%
Mission First Inc$85,00052%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc$70,00070%
Samaritan's Purse$50,00010%
Magnolia Speech School$50,00041%
Mississippi Children's Home Society$45,00040%
Gateway Rescue Mission Inc$35,00021%
Promise House Inc$35,00040%
United Way of West Central Mississippi Inc$25,00011%
Central MS Down Syndrome Society Inc$5,00012%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$5,00010%
Genesis Womens Shelter & Support$5,0001n/a
Mib Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired$5,0001n/a
Team Rubicon Inc$5,00010%
Son of a Saint$5,00010%
New Directions of Horry County Inc$5,0001n/a
The Cajun Navy Relief Inc$5,00010%
Oasis for Orphans$3,30010%
The Rotary Charity Trust Fund$2,5001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chew Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStewpot Community Services Inc: $435,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Inc: $170,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVhl Alliance Inc: $105,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetSt Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMission First Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetThe Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMagnolia Speech School: $50,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMississippi Children's Home Society: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGateway Rescue Mission Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPromise House Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of West Central Mississippi Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCentral MS Down Syndrome Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSon of a Saint: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cajun Navy Relief Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOasis for Orphans: $3,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Ergon Foundation IncMS26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Feild Co-Operative Association · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family Foundation · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Walker Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Parker Lifeshare Foundation · Regions Foundation · Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Chew Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Chew Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Chew Foundation

How much does The Chew Foundation give?
The Chew Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $1,113,736 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Chew Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (48%), Health (35%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are The Chew Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Stewpot Community Services Inc ($435k), The Mustard Seed Inc ($170k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($160k).
Does The Chew Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Chew 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 Chew Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ergon Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Mississippi, Feild Co-Operative Association.
Where is The Chew Foundation based?
The Chew Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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