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New York · Public charity

Chashama Inc

Since 1995, chashama has revitalized over 90 properties, providing invaluable opportunities to more than 12,000 artists. Chashama empowers artists at any stage of their career with affordable space to create and present. Chashama also brings vibrant, artistic programming to audiences of all ages and backgrounds by annually presenting…

$80k
Granted FY2023
3
Itemized grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$38k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Chashama Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$38k67%
FY20222$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$38kYouth Development$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
We Accept You One of US$20,0001n/a
Lesley Ware$17,3942n/a
Angela Harriell$7,0001n/a
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc$5,70011%

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About Chashama Inc

How much does Chashama Inc give?
Chashama Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $37,700, out of $79,780 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Chashama Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Youth Development (24%).
Who are Chashama Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2023: We Accept You One of US ($20k), Lesley Ware ($17k), Angela Harriell ($7k).
Does Chashama Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Chashama Inc based?
Chashama Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $126k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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