· 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.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $663k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $793,200 |
| THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $460,000 |
| UNC-CHAPEL HILL | $425,000 |
| GREENWICH ACADEMY | $398,000 |
| GAME & WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST | $137,747 |
| THE OCEAN FOUNDATION | $122,916 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT | $100,000 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $75,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE HEAVENLY REST | $75,000 |
| THE MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER | $50,000 |
| THE DARIEN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TWO EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNC PRESS | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 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
Backed again, and grew
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2017–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +58%
- GAGREENWICH ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +31%
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN6× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- NNYBGone grant, 2019 · $625k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $443k
- GWGAMES & WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $135k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 87 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD HAMPTON JENRETTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds CULTURE FOR ONE ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds B ROBERT WILLIAMSON JR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CRYPTOLOGIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chilton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chilton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
- Mather Homestead Foundation: 4% of income from government
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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