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Tom and Kate Chappell Family Foundation at a glance

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Tom and Kate Chappell Family 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.

$174k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$402kArts & Culture$175kReligion$132kEnvironment$103kRecreation & Sports$74kScience & Tech$51kFood & Nutrition$46kHealth$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$337k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF MONHEGAN VFD$30,000
ANNIES ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND$25,000
HYDE SCHOOL$15,000
MITCHELL INSTITUTE$15,000
TRINITY COLLEGE$10,000
HOPE CEMETERY$10,000
ST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL$10,000
PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
NATURE CONSERVATORY$5,000
TEMPO ART FUNDING PROSPOSAL$5,000
HAYSTACK MOUNT SCHOOL OF CRAFTS$3,500
SACO RIVER THEATRE$2,750
MAINE FARMLAND TRUST$2,500
PORTLAND COMMUNITY SQUASH$2,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN INDIAN INSTITUTE: $250 → 10%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION: $100 → 9%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $250 → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $250 → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $200 → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $100 → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $100 → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $100 → 7%OLYMPIA SNOWE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50 → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MT
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$901k · 63 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
37

Total granted

$901k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +31%
  • SG
    Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute
    6× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +26%
  • AA
    ANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SM
    Saddleback Mountain Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -100%
  • PD
    PROJECT DRAWDOWNgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +395%
  • MH
    MECHANICS HALL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -38%
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
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
3
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
4
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
5
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
6
Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment
7
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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8
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…

Arts & Culture
9
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
10
Maine Tree Foundation

Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community

Environment
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Maine Island Trail Association

The mission of the Maine Island Trail Association is to advance a model of thoughtful use and volunteer stewardship of Maine's wild islands, creating an inspiring recreational water trail that is cared for by the people who use it.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maine Humanities Council; the most unlike its peers is Hope Cemetery Corporation. 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

74 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. 74 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/74
Grantees still filing
56/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $129,100 · OtherST DAVIDS EPISCOPAL CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $102,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINENATURE CONSERVATORY: $56,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVATORYMonhegan Historical & Cultural Museum Association: $36,400 · OtherMonhegan Historical & Cultural Museum AssociationTEMPOART FUNDING PROSPOSAL: $36,000 · OtherTEMPOART FUNDING PROSPOSALFRIENDS OF MONHEGAN VFD: $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MONHEGAN VFDCARLISLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherCARLISLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONHOPE CEMETARY AND WOODS: $20,000 · OtherVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC: $19,000 · Other+60 more: $79,103 · Other+60 moreTRINITY COLLEGE: $123,500 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGEPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $61,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvar…Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $56,000 · EducationSenator George J Mitchell Schol…Haystack Mountain School of Crafts: $28,500 · EducationHaystack Mountain School of Cra…Hyde School: $15,000 · Education+10 more: $21,325 · Education+10 morePortland Museum of Art: $36,000 · Arts & CulturePortland M…TEMPOART: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTEMPOARTThe Saco River Theatre: $13,100 · Arts & CultureThe Saco R…Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $10,400 · Arts & CultureMaine Publ…Maine Jewish Film Festival: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $14,150 · Arts & Culture+14 moreSaddleback Mountain Foundation: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF HOPE CEMETERY & WOODS: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsMaine Farmland Trust: $35,000 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $2,450 · Food & NutritionANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $40,000 · HealthKennebunk Land Trust: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $2,000 · EnvironmentGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $1,950 · EnvironmentMaine Audubon Society: $1,250 · EnvironmentMONHEGAN ASSOCIATES INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentEcology Education Inc: $450 · Environment+5 more: $1,000 · Environment
Other$537,603Education$305,325Arts & Culture$99,150Recreation & Sports$72,000Food & Nutrition$46,450Health$40,000Environment$10,650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $123,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $61,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSenator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute: $56,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMonhegan Historical & Cultural Museum Association: $36,400 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCARLISLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetHaystack Mountain School of Crafts: $28,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOPE CEMETERY & WOODS: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHyde School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Saco River Theatre: $13,100 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $10,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CEMETERY CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMECHANICS HALL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMaine Jewish Film Festival: $4,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKennebunk Land Trust: $3,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,700 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC: $2,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Community Squash: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCHOOL AROUND US: $1,950 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $1,950 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Huts & Trails: $1,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRICK STORE MUSEUM INC: $1,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONHEGAN ISLAND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONHEGAN ASSOCIATES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRiver Tree Center for the Arts: $850 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE PROJ FOR FINE ART CONSERVATIO: $700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEcology Education Inc: $450 over 3y, 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 TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Senator George J Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds Saddleback Mountain Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANNIE'S ANGELS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Monhegan Historical & Cultural Museum Association ↗
  • Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
  • Who funds CARLISLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Haystack Mountain School of Crafts ↗
  • Who funds TEMPOART ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HOPE CEMETERY & WOODS ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Hyde School ↗
  • Who funds The Saco River Theatre ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CEMETERY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
  • Who funds MECHANICS HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Maine Jewish Film Festival ↗
  • Who funds Kennebunk Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds POETS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
  • Who funds Indigo Arts Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Island Institute ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Davis Family Foundati…Onion FoundationSam L Cohen FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Saco & Biddeford Savi…Virginia Hodgkins Som…Horizon Foundation IncSimmons Foundation - …Spectemur Agendo IncPhineas W Sprague Mem…
Maine Community Foundation IncME60.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Spectemur Agendo Inc · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation

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 Tom and Kate Chappell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom and Kate Chappell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Kingswood Oxford School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Tom and Kate Chappell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tom and Kate Chappell Family Foundation 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 123 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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