· Private foundation
The Chingos Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUDUBON CENTER FOR BIRDS OF PREY | $20,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY IN NEW YORK-ADIRONDACK CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| PENN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY - FALLINGWATER | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - FLORIDA CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| GERMAN MASONTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $5,000 |
| COOPERS ROCK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MON RIVER TRAILS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - WEST VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA-DARDEN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER OF APPALACHIA INC | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY | $3,500 |
| BARNEVELD FREE LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 58% of your 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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +70%
- GMGERMAN MASONTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +107%
- ACAVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER OF APPALACHIA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- MAMORGANTOWN AREA MOUNTAIN BIKE ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $4k
- RRReef Relief Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +136%
- PBPALM BEACH COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION - GIFT DRIVEone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.
Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the Greater Rochester region - providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature.
Protection of important natural resources, open space, habitat and agricultural lands in the Genesee River watershed through the use of land acquisition and conservation easements. Continued on Schedule O. Provide planning services to…
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The mission of the warren library association is to provide all citizens in its service area access to library materials and information services which address the needs and expand the aspirations of the community for formal and lifelong…
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stowe Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 32 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GERMAN MASONTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER OF APPALACHIA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Barneveld Free Library Association ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK CENTER FOR LOON CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Reef Relief Inc ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Chingos 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Legal Services Inc — 39% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
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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