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The Jay Chiat Foundation Inc CO Marc and Anna Chiat

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.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of The Jay Chiat Foundation Inc CO Marc and Anna Chiat’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fostering Early Learning Institute$100,000
Doctors without Borders$12,000
Brooklyn Inc$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Friends of Bellweather: $48k → 8%EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $225k → 9%PLANTING JUSTICE: $14k → 10%SHARE CO GREGORY B NATHAN: $105k → 14%Doctors without Borders: $18k → 17%Brooklyn Inc: $3k → 20%Good Energy Project Inc: $10k → 12%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $3k → 18%MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY: $5k → 8%EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $140k → 9%PLANTING JUSTICE: $8k → 10%SHARE CO GREGORY B NATHAN: $90k → 14%Doctors without Borders: $12k → 17%EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $125k → 9%PLANTING JUSTICE: $2k → 10%SHARE CO GREGORY B NATHAN: $65k → 14%EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $105k → 9%Share co Greg Nathan: $214k → 14%EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $100k → 9%PITZER COLLEGE: $15k → 14%Fostering Early Learning Institute: $100k → 9%Fostering Early Learning Inst: $100k → 9%EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $100k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 5 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$1.3M
$352k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+11%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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

  • EL
    EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $795k
  • SC
    SHARE CO GREGORY B NATHAN
    3× · 2020–2022 · $260k
  • FE
    FOSTERING EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • SC
    Share co Greg Nathan
    one grant, 2023 · $214k
  • SH
    Share Human Life Project
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BELLWEATHER
    one grant, 2024 · $48k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Social Justice Partners Los Angeles

We support the creation of systems of care for the wellbeing and liberation for those working towards more justice in los angeles. we advance racial and social justice by providing grants, training, peer learning, and healing spaces that…

Education
2
Terraset

Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…

Environment
3
Allied Climate Partners Inc

Allied climate partners' (acp) mission is to invest catalytic capital to resolve climate finance bottlenecks in emerging markets and developing economies by fostering, supporting, promoting, and conducting programs, projects, and…

Environment
4
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
5
Scripps College

To educate women to develop their intellect and talents through active participation in a community of scholars, so that as graduates they may contribute to society through public and private lives of leadership, service, integrity and…

Education
6
The Green Light Project Inc

A non-partisan organization focused on countering extremism and educating communities about the dangers of extremism.

Education
7
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
8
Poder Latinx

Empowering Latinx communities to build sustained political power and actively participate in democracy.

Civil Rights
9
We Mean Business Coalition Inc

Through unprecedented collaboration, we catalyze business action and drive ambitious policy to halve emissions by 2030 and accelerate an inclusive transition to a net-zero economy by 2050, at the latest.

Environment
10
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Unlocking the secrets of life itself is the driving force behind the salk institute. our team of world-class, award-winning scientists pushes boundaries of knowledge in areas such as neuroscience, cancer research, aging, immunobiology,…

Science & Tech
11
350ORG

350.org works with people around the world, using online tools to facilitate strategic campaigns, organizing, and public engagement actions to communicate both the realities of science and principles of justice in addressing the climate…

Environment
12
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Good Energy Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Miracle League North Bay. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE — $795,000 · OtherEARLY LEARNING INSTITUTESHARE CO GREGORY B NATHAN — $260,000 · OtherSHARE CO GREGORY B NATHANShare co Greg Nathan — $214,000 · OtherShare co Greg NathanShare Human Life Project — $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BELLWEATHER — $48,000 · Other+2 more — $5,000 · OtherFOSTERING EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE — $200,000 · EducationFOSTERING EARL…Pitzer College — $15,000 · EducationPitzer CollegePlanting Justice — $23,000 · EnvironmentTHE GOOD ENERGY PROJECT INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 · InternationalArts Business Collaborative — $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,372,000Education$215,000Environment$33,000International$30,000Community Improvement$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Crime & Legal$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOSTERING EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanting Justice — $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPitzer College — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD ENERGY PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetArts Business Collaborative — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FOSTERING EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds Planting Justice
  • Who funds Pitzer College
  • Who funds THE GOOD ENERGY PROJECT INC
  • Who funds Arts Business Collaborative
  • Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Jay Chiat Foundation Inc CO Marc and Anna Chiat 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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