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· Public charity

The Chimes Foundation Inc

Chimes' mission is to foster a welcoming community where individuals of differing abilities and behavioral health needs are supported.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$453kYouth Development$8kReligion$8kCommunity Improvement$7kArts & Culture$7kCivil Rights$6k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$23,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHIMES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC$36,038
HOLCOMB ASSOCIATES INC$23,500
CHIMES METRO INC$20,337
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $8k → 6%THE CHIMES INC: $593k → 19%CHIMES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $156k → 19%THE CHIMES INC: $98k → 19%CHIMES METRO INC: $80k → 19%CHIMES DELAWARE: $76k → 19%THE CHIMES INC: $63k → 19%CHIMES VIRGINIA INC: $61k → 19%CHIMES METRO INC: $44k → 19%THE CHIMES INC: $43k → 19%CHIMES METRO INC: $40k → 19%CHIMES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $36k → 19%THE CHIMES INC: $32k → 19%CHIMES METRO INC: $20k → 19%CHIMES VIRGINIA INC: $18k → 19%CHIMES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $10k → 19%BALTIMORE CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY: $14k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 7 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$2.6M
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CHIMES INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $828k · revenue +11%
  • CI
    CHIMES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    5× · 2017–2021 · $740k · revenue +156%
  • HA
    HOLCOMB ASSOCIATES INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $494k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AP
    ALTERNATIVE PATHS TRAINING SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • TE
    THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +218%
  • CF
    CHILD FIRST AUTHORITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue +39%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Chimes Foundation Inc

Chimes' mission is to foster a welcoming community where individuals of differing abilities and behavioral health needs are supported. the organization enables futures by providing support, advocacy, and solutions that enhance…

Human Services
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Community Systems Support and Management Services Inc

Helping persons with disabilities to find happiness in their own homes, in their personal relationships, and as contributing members of their community.

Health
4
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
8
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
9
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
11
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Network of Community Options and Resources. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHIMES INC: $828,326 · Human ServicesTHE CHIMES INCCHIMES METRO INC: $260,767 · Human ServicesCHIMES METRO INCCHIMES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $202,347 · Human ServicesCHIMES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INCCHIMES VIRGINIA INC: $79,040 · Human ServicesCHIMES VIRGINIA INC+2 more: $21,979 · Human ServicesCHIMES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED: $739,849 · EducationCHIMES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED+3 more: $53,409 · Education+3 moreHOLCOMB ASSOCIATES INC: $493,869 · HealthHOLCOMB ASSOCIATES I…ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $13,200 · OtherMOBILE AUTISM TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN OF HEROS (MATCH): $11,484 · OtherCRISTO REY CORPORATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $8,000 · OtherNWS COMPANY LLC: $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN NETWORK OF COMMUNITY OPTIONS AND RESOURCES: $5,000 · Other
Human Services$1,392,459Education$793,258Health$493,869Other$44,684

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHIMES INC: $828,326 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHIMES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED: $739,849 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetHOLCOMB ASSOCIATES INC: $493,869 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHIMES METRO INC: $260,767 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHIMES DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $202,347 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHIMES VIRGINIA INC: $79,040 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALTERNATIVE PATHS TRAINING SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $13,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY CORPORATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAFTON SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $7,409 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NETWORK OF COMMUNITY OPTIONS AND RESOURCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Chimes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chimes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Chimes District of Columbia Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Chimes Metro Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Chimes Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Chimes Foundation Inc 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.

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 16 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 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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