FundersNew York

Chapel Hill Foundation Inc

Plattsburgh, NY · EIN 14-1820272. Reported 62 grants totalling $392,900 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$392,900granted, 2021-2024
29organizations funded
71%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,571,310assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Chapel Hill Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
30 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
17 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Adirondack FoundationLake Placid, NY$65,000442024
Adk Mountain ClubLake Placid, NY$55,000442024
Cornell Cooperative ExtensionPlattsburgh, NY$54,200442024
Senior Citizens CouncilPlattsburgh, NY$32,400442024
Plattsburgh YMCAPlattsburgh, NY$20,000222024
Adirondack Regional TheatrePlattsburgh, NY$18,500442024
Mercy Care for the AdirondacksLake Placid, NY$17,500442024
Thera Pets IncPeru, NY$17,500332024
Adirondack ActionKeeseville, NY$15,000442024
SUNY Plattsburgh State CollegePlattsburgh, NY$13,500222022
Plattsburg CaresPlattsburgh, NY$12,500332024
The Brigid ProjectSaranac, NY$10,300222024
Mooers Free LibraryMooers, NY$9,000332024
1814 Commemoration IncPlattsburgh, NY$8,000442024
Jceo Cycling Without AgePlattsburgh, NY$5,000112023
Pendragon TheaterSaranac Lake, NY$5,000112024
WpbsWatertown, NY$5,000112023
Clinton County Historical AssociatiPlattsburgh, NY$4,500112021
Adirondack HealthSaranac Lake, NY$3,500112023
Girl Scouts of Northeastern NyPlattsburgh, NY$3,500112023
Chazy Youth HockeyChazy, NY$2,500112024
Child Advocacy CenterPlattsburgh, NY$2,500112021
Heart Well Homestead IncPlattsburgh, NY$2,500112024
Salvation ArmyPlattsburgh, NY$2,500112024
Kent Delord House MuseumPlattsburgh, NY$2,000112023
Mountain Lakes Public TelevisionPlattsburgh, NY$2,000112021
Plattsburg United Methodist ChurchPlattsburgh, NY$2,000112021
Cvph FoundationPlattsburgh, NY$1,000112022
Plattsburgh CaresPlattsburgh, NY$1,000112021

14 of 29 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 71%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Education
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Human Services
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202114$79,400$4,500
202214$82,700$3,500
202317$101,700$5,000
202417$129,100$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Plattsburgh, NY
$188K
Lake Placid, NY
$98K
Lake George, NY
$25K
Peru, NY
$18K
Keeseville, NY
$15K
Queensbury, NY
$15K
Saranac, NY
$10K
Mooers, NY
$9K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Chapel Hill Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 107 Salmon River Road, Plattsburgh, NY, 12901. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 14-1820272 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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