Virginia · Nonprofit
THE CHAS FOUNDATION
THE CHAS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,925 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($194,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $256k
- Net assets
- $88k
What The Chas Foundation does
Mission
The mission of The Chas Foundation is: to advocate for individuals living with mental illness; to address the stigma associated with people living with a mental illness; to streamline access to effective treatment; to save the lives of those struggling with a mental illness by working with private and public professionals; to provide education and support for family members impacted by their loved ones mental illness. Established in 2012, The Chas Foundation aims to streamline access to effective treatment for those impacted by mental illness in the hampton roads region. Chas stands for courage, hope, acceptance, and support. The organization was created in memory of charles h. Kirkwood (chas) who struggled with bipolar disorder, encountered numerous barriers to treatment, and ultimately lost his life to suicide. The organization began as a grassroots movement to significantly change how mental illness is both perceived and treated within our communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mental illness navigator & support (mins) program in 2024, The Chas Foundation continued helping individuals and their families struggling with mental illness by connecting them to local treatment providers and offering peer family support. Support services include transportation, crisis meals, and temporary housing for individuals with serious mental illness (smi). Indeed, there is a disconnect between an individual needing mental health treatment and them accessing treatment. A multitude of barriers exist accessing treatment including cost, transportation, lack of providers, wait-times to receive treatment, substance abuse, etc chas seeks to eliminate those barriers. The mental illness navigator and support program educates families about the complex mental healthcare system, supports them along their journey, and provides a continuum of care through referrals and connections to local mental health services (treatment providers, housing, police, court, jails). When inpatient and outpatient services and resources are inadequate, or the individual and/or family has exhausted all options, The Chas Foundation continues to provide peer family support so that a support system is…
$117,984 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $117,984.
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 2018 to 2019, from $42k to $124k (+195%).
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: 2019 19% · 2020 9% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of THE CHAS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $36k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 THE CHAS 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
THE CHAS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 THE CHAS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 84% · 2020 80% · 2021 96% · 2022 47% · 2023 97% — 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
40% of THE CHAS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
76% of THE CHAS 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 $60k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE CHAS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CHAS 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CHAS FOUNDATION?
- THE CHAS FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,925 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($194,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CHAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $255,925 in grants to THE CHAS FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHAS FOUNDATION?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $194,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHAS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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