Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership Inc
Chapel Hill, NC · EIN 20-1561219. Reported 28 grants totalling $134,812 to 27 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 50% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $2,000. Half of what it reported fell between $1,825 and $2,000; the smallest was $1,130 and the largest $34,136. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various | Chapel Hill, NC | $67,598 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Various | $15,542 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Shrunken Head Inc | Chapel Hill, NC | $5,177 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ben & Jerry's | Pittsboro, NC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 140 West Franklin Condo Association | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Als Burger | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chapel Hill Training | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Classic Carolina Unc LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Four Corners | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lapin Bleu LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Le Cheveu Salon LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Orange County Arts Alliance | Hillsborough, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shop Luxe Crafted LLC | Pittsboro, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Indian LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Purple Bowl LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Top of the Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tru Deli LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Voodoo Wings | Cary, NC | $1,913 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Carolina Brewery | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,909 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Momo's Master | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,825 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chapel Hill Florist | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,791 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rumors LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,748 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Varsity Theatre | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,720 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shakti Body Piercing LLC | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,693 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Talulla's Mezze Lounge & Bar | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,397 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Pitch Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,369 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Orchid Threading & Spa | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,130 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
1 of 27 (4%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Shrunken Head Inc
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL BUSINESS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 1 of 27 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | $15,542 | $15,542 |
| 2022 | 1 | $34,136 | $34,136 |
| 2023 | 1 | $33,462 | $33,462 |
| 2024 | 25 | $51,672 | $2,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $2,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 25 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 136 E Rosemary St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517.
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