Connecticut · Private foundation
The Chilton Foundation
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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2023
- 33
- Grants FY2023
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $793,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 9
- Total assets, FY2023
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Chilton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 33 | $3.0M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $2.5M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $1.8M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $4.4M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $2.6M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $2.1M | 48% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $4,470,683 | 6 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $4,445,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | $2,560,000 | 7 | 3% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $2,083,180 | 6 | 1% |
| Mather Homestead Foundation | $655,000 | 4 | 81% |
| Walsh Park Benevolent Corporation | $300,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Marymount Manhattan College | $260,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Darien Foundation Inc | $244,400 | 6 | 9% |
| Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation | $130,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Ocean Foundation | $122,916 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Chilton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Robertson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Chilton Foundation
- How much does The Chilton Foundation give?
- The Chilton Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $3,028,434 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Chilton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (26%), Environment (12%).
- Who are The Chilton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($4.5M), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($4.4M), Greenwich Academy Inc ($2.6M).
- Does The Chilton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chilton 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 Chilton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Robertson Foundation.
- Where is The Chilton Foundation based?
- The Chilton Foundation is based in CT.
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