· Private foundation
William and Gayle Chorske Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTER SEALS OF SW FLORIDA | $44,497 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $18,750 |
| ACES AREA COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | $5,250 |
| DODOMA TANZANIA HEALTH DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSING | $5,000 |
| ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST | $4,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE DENVER | $3,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $2,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE | $2,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF NURSING | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.
47 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- ESEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $134k · revenue +82%
- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +74%
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +37%
- CRCristo Rey High Schoolone grant, 2020 · $11k
- IUIEECA - UKRAINIAN REFUGEE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Best Buy Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 97 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 Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG VICTORIAN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK TRAIL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AREA COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds High Peaks Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds OTTAUQUECHEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds WISHES & MORE ↗
- Who funds LONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND ↗
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: Leita & William Hamill Foundation Inc · Adirondack Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Rising Phoenix Foundation Inc · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota 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 William and Gayle Chorske Family 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.
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Area Cooperative Educational Services — 1% of income from government
- Norman Williams Public Library Inc — 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.