New York · Private foundation
American Chai Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $613k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations American Chai Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $91k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $121k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $39k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $122k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $87k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $82k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $95k | 59% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $103k | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Museum of Contemporary Art | $96,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The American Federation of Arts Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lunch Break Inc | $39,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Hunter College Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $16,800 | 4 | 1% |
| International Peace Institute Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stuttering Association for the Young Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolis Ensemble Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($346k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Chai Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Roy & Niuta Titus Foundation
How this is measured
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About American Chai Trust
- How much does American Chai Trust give?
- American Chai Trust reported 11 grants totaling $91,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does American Chai Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are American Chai Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Museum of Contemporary Art ($97k), The American Federation of Arts Inc ($40k), Lunch Break Inc ($39k).
- Does American Chai Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does American Chai Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as American Chai Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is American Chai Trust based?
- American Chai Trust is based in NY.
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