At Chapman, our ongoing business mission includes supporting the nonprofit community through innovation, service and charity. We accomplish this mission through our corporate endeavors by striving to provide nonprofit agencies like yours with comprehensive coverage at the most reasonable price. Likewise, we keep your best interests in mind when creating innovative products and services designed to save money and provide management and administrative support for organizations constrained due to budget restrictions.

The Chapman Charitable Foundation was established in 2000 and has subsequently given almost $6 mil in grant money to the California nonprofit community. On average, we have given away over 4% of our annual corporate revenue through the Foundation. This is an accomplishment that we are very proud of and feel blessed to be in a position to help give back to the community whose partnership has kept us in business for over 37 years.

As the board looks to the next 10 years of grant giving, it is a priority to maximize the impact within the community that we intended when we first established the foundation. We spread small grants to as many organizations as possible, with an average grant totaling approximately $5,000. In a retrospective review, it is difficult for us to see where our grants have made significant impact to the overall success of any given nonprofit recipient.

As a result of our review and intention to truly make a difference to our recipients, we have adjusted our grant giving process. We will no longer be accepting formal applications through the grant process, but instead will be using a recommendation committee and our Board of Directors for candidate approval. And although we are committed to continuing our giving for many years to come, we will no longer be accepting grant requests at this time. 

The Foundation Review Committee will be meeting on a quarterly basis to discuss granting options.  They plan on not funding more than 4-6 organizations per year, but the amounts of each grant will often be much greater than in the past.  The Review Committee will be primarily looking for ways to fund projects, programs or capital campaigns rather than ongoing operations expenses.  Likewise, they will be looking for organizations who have already received matching grants through such foundations as Rose Hills or The Weingart Foundation, where the money they give will exponentially make an impact in the  future operations of the nonprofit.  If you wish to submit information to the Review Committee for consideration, you may do so by sending in a 1 page email or letter to Mari Perez at mperez@chapmanins.com.  We will be handing over all info to the Foundation Review Committee for their quarterly meetings and if they think that your organization or project is one that they may want to fund, they will follow up directly with you to get more information.

For more information, please contact Mari Perez at mperez@chapmanins.com.