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William and Gayle Chorske Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

William and Gayle Chorske Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$215kHuman Services$172kHealth$65kArts & Culture$64kEnvironment$45kInternational$36kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTER SEALS OF SW FLORIDA$44,497
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$18,750
ACES AREA COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES$5,250
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$5,000
BOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSING$5,000
ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
DODOMA TANZANIA HEALTH DEVELOPMENT$5,000
ADIRONDACK LAND TRUST$4,000
SEEDS OF HOPE DENVER$3,000
ST MARTIN DE PORRES$2,500
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$2,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE$2,000
YALE SCHOOL OF NURSING$2,000
SARASOTA OPERA$2,000
SARASOTA ORCHESTRA$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wishes and More: $5k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $2k → 13%Vermont Catholic Charities: $2k → 10%WISHES AND MORE: $250 → 7%Pinky Swear Foundation: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE: $2k → 9%VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 10%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE: $2k → 9%VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE: $2k → 9%SAFEHOUSE DENVER: $2k → 12%THE THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.
$554k · 47 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
45

Total granted

$554k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+27%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & 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

  • ES
    Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $134k · revenue +82%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +74%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +37%
  • CR
    Cristo Rey High School
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • IU
    IEECA - UKRAINIAN REFUGEE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
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
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 97 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
39/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Mary's High School Inc: $31,000 · OtherSt Mary's High School IncBOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSING: $20,000 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL OF NURSINGYale School of Nursing: $14,000 · OtherCristo Rey High School: $11,000 · OtherIEECA - UKRAINIAN REFUGEE FUND: $10,000 · OtherTANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $26,000 · OtherTANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIPADIRONDACK TRAIL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $19,250 · OtherADIRONDACK TRAIL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC+51 more: $146,705 · Other+51 moreEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $134,497 · HealthEaster Seals Southwest…+7 more: $8,868 · Health+7 moreTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $39,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD …President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $35,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows …WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $18,750 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOT…AREA COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $12,750 · EducationAREA COOPERATIVE EDUCA…ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS: $5,250 · Education+4 more: $13,100 · Education+4 moreYOUNG VICTORIAN THEATRE COMPANY: $29,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Opera Association Inc: $9,500 · Arts & CultureAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Arts & CultureLONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWoodstock Community Trust Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePENTANGLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $2,000 · Arts & CultureADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $34,500 · EnvironmentAUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED: $6,500 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $2,500 · Environment+2 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesVERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesWISHES & MORE: $5,250 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHigh Peaks Education Foundation: $6,000 · PhilanthropyBEST BUY FOUNDATION: $2,200 · Philanthropy
Other$277,955Health$143,365Education$142,350Arts & Culture$54,500Environment$45,500Human Services$28,750Philanthropy$28,200

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 budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $134,497 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $35,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $34,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG VICTORIAN THEATRE COMPANY: $29,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetTANZANIA HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $26,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK TRAIL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC: $19,250 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $18,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAREA COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $12,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAUSABLE FRESHWATER CENTER INCORPORATED: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Peaks Education Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetVERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAUQUECHEE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS: $5,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWISHES & MORE: $5,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLONE TREE ARTS CENTER FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $3,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWoodstock Community Trust Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEST BUY FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENTANGLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCRANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRANE MOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAX FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIES SQUAD: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
  • Who funds High Peaks Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES 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 ↗

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.

Leita & William Hamil…Adirondack FoundationPrice Chopper's Golub…The Minneapolis Found…The Vermont Community…The New York Communit…The Rising Phoenix Fo…Kirby Family Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Dr Frank C Marino Fou…The Abell Foundation …Saint Paul & Minnesot…
Leita & William Hamill Foundation IncNJ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
15report 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.

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 97 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home