· Private foundation
Wicks Chapin Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $150,000 |
| TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER | $110,000 |
| NYC MARINE CORPS | $25,000 |
| HSS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING | $15,000 |
| LIFECAMP | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| GARDEN STATE INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| BANCROFT NEUROHEALTH | $14,500 |
| MCLEF | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JOCKEY HOLLOW | $10,000 |
| BLOOD CENTER UNITED | $10,000 |
| ASSUMPTION COLLEGE FOR SISTERS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PECK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those 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.
48 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $882k · revenue +56%
- MCMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $163k · revenue +1%
- BABANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION7× · 2018–2024 · $163k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- TSTHE SCHOOLS OF SAINT MARY - KIT KADE CHARBONNEAU MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2021 · $75k
- THTHE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MCMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $31k
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.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Assumption College for Sisters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 84 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 SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE PECK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911 ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Healey Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The McJ Amelior Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Thebault Family Foundation Inc · Hidden Pond Foundation · Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inc · Meerwarth Family Foundation · The Andrew S Gaffney 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 Wicks Chapin Inc 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.
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- Morristown-Beard School — 0% 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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