Alabama · Private foundation
Chafetz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $156k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Chafetz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $12k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramah Darom Inc | $60,000 | 8 | n/a |
| N E Miles Jewish Day School | $24,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Indian Springs School | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple Beth El Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($360), not named here.
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 Ronne & Donald Hess Foundation · The Engel Foundation Inc · Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Chafetz Foundation
- How much does Chafetz Foundation give?
- Chafetz Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $16,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chafetz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (65%), Education (28%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are Chafetz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ramah Darom Inc ($60k), N E Miles Jewish Day School ($24k), Indian Springs School ($2k).
- Does Chafetz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chafetz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chafetz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ronne & Donald Hess Foundation, The Engel Foundation Inc, Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation.
- Where is Chafetz Foundation based?
- Chafetz Foundation is based in AL.
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