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The Jay Chiat Foundation Inc CO Marc and Anna Chiat at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$1.0MInternational$507kEnvironment$58kHealth$50kFood & Nutrition$23kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$5kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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 Inst: $100k → 9%EARLY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $100k → 9%Fostering Early Learning Institute: $100k → 9%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Good Energy Project Inc; 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 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. 8 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · InternationalTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsArts Business Collaborative: $5,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,372,000Education$215,000Environment$33,000International$30,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Community Improvement$5,000Crime & Legal$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetArts Business Collaborative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 THE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY ↗
  • Who funds Arts Business Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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 15 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-PF 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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