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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $999k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $998,736 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE DOWN SYNDROME ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| VHL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL MS DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–20, $20k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- SCSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $435k · revenue +95%
- TMThe Mustard Seed Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +40%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +40%
- UWUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -68%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST MSone grant, 2023 · $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.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Service agency providing comprehensive social services and community outreach programs for the entire family. st. vincent's house serves the disadvantaged, underserved and working poor population of the greater galveston community with…
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
Provide free medical services to uninsured individuals.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
Alleviate and prevent homelessness through the provision of shelter, services, support, hospitality and guidance to homeless individuals, youth and families. the organization's mission is to provide non-judgmental services to end…
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
Ignited by faith, we live out god's love by embracing, equipping and empowering vulnerable individuals, families and communities toward self-sufficiency.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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.
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VHL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds Central MS Down Syndrome Society Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR ORPHANS ↗
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.
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
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 Chew 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.
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