The Chatlos Foundation

The Chatlos Foundation is a US private foundation based in New York, NY.

Profile derived from the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2025, TY2024, TY2023) and its website, with every statement checked against those sources. Sources read on 7 October 2026.

Priority Areas

Eligible applicants are non-profit organisations based in the United States, recognised as tax-exempt by the IRS and in existence for at least two years. The foundation funds organisations doing work in the United States and around the globe. Its stated areas of interest are Bible colleges and seminaries, religious causes, medical concerns, liberal arts colleges and social concerns. It places organisations in a category according to their overall mission rather than the particular project. Social concerns encompass secular community programmes providing direct services in child welfare, vocational training, prison alternatives, concerns for the aged and disabled, and men, women and families in crisis. Private colleges receive priority consideration in the liberal arts category.

Themes

• Bible Colleges/Seminaries
• Religious Causes
• Liberal Arts Colleges
• Medical Concerns
• Social Concerns

Geographic Focus

United States. Priority: Around the globe.

What They Don't Fund

• Organizations which discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, creed, age, or national origin
• Medical research
• Support to individual church congregations and associated ministries
• Education below college level
• Organizations in existence for less than a two-year period as indicated by the date of their tax exempt letter from the IRS
• The Arts
• Individuals
• Loans
• Scholarship grants directly to individuals

Eligible organisations submit a Funding Request either by US Mail or through the Chatlos Online Portal, choosing one method.

• Repeat giving: In its TY2025 filing, 91% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2023 or TY2024 filing.
• Grant size: Across its TY2023, TY2024 and TY2025 filings, half of its 458 grants to organisations were $5,000 or less.

What the foundation says:

• The foundation classifies organisations by their overall mission, not only by the project proposed.
• Potential Bible college and seminary recipients are asked to sign the Statement of Faith to show that their institutional philosophy is consistent with the foundation’s.
• Private colleges receive priority consideration in the liberal arts category.
• The request package must include a grant request letter, a simple project budget and the completed application.
• The project overview should define the problem or need with relevant data and examples that show its significance.
• The trustees’ Preliminary Review Committee decides whether a request will go to the full board for possible funding.
• Funded organisations are expected to report updates on project outcomes, including success or failure.