The Chadbourne-Demaria Foundation

• The foundation makes grants to charitable organisations and says it proactively seeks out 501(c)(3) organisations whose missions resonate with its membership, so a clear match with that description is the first thing to check.
• Its recorded grants have gone to a varied mix of schools, churches, a medical centre, aquatic organisations and other charitable service providers, with no single subject area stated as a priority, and most of its giving has gone to Florida, which reflects past grants rather than a rule about where applicants must be based.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $2,600 and $160,000, with a median of about $23,000, so a request in that region is typical, although its largest grant was $650,000 and that band is not a ceiling.
• Because 69% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded earlier, it is worth checking whether it already supports similar work before making a short, targeted enquiry to the contact named in the filing; it accepts applications and gives no deadline in the filing, so timing is flexible.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Morning Star High School · Charitable donation
  $650,0002024 tax year
• Trinity Village · Charitable donation
  $169,0002024 tax year
• Trinity House · Charitable donation
  $150,0002024 tax year
• Our Lady of Angels-Saint Joseph Medical Clinic · Charitable donation
  $32,0002024 tax year
• SeaStars Aquatics · Charitable donation
  $22,0002024 tax year
• Valerie's House · Charitable donation
  $20,0002024 tax year
• Dallas Stars Foundation · Charitable donation
  $9,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.