Vermont · Nonprofit
CHILL FOUNDATION
CHILL FOUNDATION (Vermont) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,820,850 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,322,563). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Chill Foundation does
Mission
To inspire young people through boardsports and build a more equitable outdoor community
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Inspire youth to overcome challenges through boardsports. Program application fees are nominal fees that cover a portion of the administrative costs for a chill program. The fees paid by the agencies cover only the application and registration of an agency. Outside of the registration fees, program costs for equipment, instruction, food, transportation, and facilities are covered by Chill Foundation.
$2,635,593 spentof which $58,650 as grants$16,322 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,635,593.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+57%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 8% · 2023 4% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CHILL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Ben Clark
CEO
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $96k → $1.1M.
18 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chill Global Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHILL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHILL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. 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
CHILL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 CHILL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 33% · 2019 39% · 2020 43% · 2021 32% · 2022 22% · 2023 30% — 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.
How long its funders stay
48% of CHILL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CHILL FOUNDATION draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
CHILL FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 23 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding CHILL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$27k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHILL 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chill Foundation of Canada · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILL 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 CHILL FOUNDATION?
- CHILL FOUNDATION (Vermont) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,820,850 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,322,563). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $4,820,850 in grants to CHILL FOUNDATION, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILL FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,322,563 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 65 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing