Texas · Nonprofit
Chester Street Foundation
Chester Street Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,868 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($13,639). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $177k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $-20592
What Chester Street Foundation does
Mission
Through Education and Collaboration, our mission is to shine a light on the invisible wounds of childhood trauma to promote prevention, recovery, and resilience in children, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Chester Street Foundation (csf) endeavors to shine a light on the invisible wounds of childhood trauma so that kids can receive the treatment they deserve while they are still young enough to recover without continuing the cycle of trauma into adulthood. Educating the adults around traumatized children is a crucial part of helping them on their road to recovery, so csf developed traumatalks, a series of high-quality trauma informed trainings featuring founder, shawn alex nemeth, and licensed mental health professionals. Since 2018 csf has trained and educated more than 7,400 parents, mental health professionals, healthcare workers, educators, and advocates through traumatalks potentially impacting more than 218,000 children and families. Csf is one of the few organizations in texas that leverages both lived experience and evidenced-based research.
$159,677 spent$69,700 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,677.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $8k to $65k (+704%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 26% · 2022 11% · 2023 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Chester Street Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shawn A Nemeth
Director/CEO
Board chair
Marian Cabanillas
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $26 → $6k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Chester Street Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Chester Street Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Chester Street Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 43% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
80% of Chester Street Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Chester Street Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chester Street Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chester Street Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Chester Street Foundation?
- Chester Street Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,868 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($13,639). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Chester Street Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $39,868 in grants to Chester Street Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chester Street Foundation?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $13,639 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chester Street Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing