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Chelsea Piers Foundation

A charitable organization, which provides scholarships for underprivileged children and adolescents who wish to participate in various sports activities throughout the summer or after-school camp programs - at chelsea piers and throughout new york city & connecticut

$838k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$120k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,038
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Chelsea Piers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$120k80%
FY20231$15k100%
FY20192$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$155kYouth Development$30kHousing & Shelter$10kHealth$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Chelsea Piers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chelsea Piers Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Chelsea Piers Foundation

How much does Chelsea Piers Foundation give?
Chelsea Piers Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $120,038, out of $837,520 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Chelsea Piers Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (76%), Youth Development (15%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
Who are Chelsea Piers Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Rising Tide Effect ($75k), Peter Westbrook Foundation Inc ($30k), City Parks Foundation Inc ($15k).
Does Chelsea Piers Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chelsea Piers Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Chelsea Piers Foundation based?
Chelsea Piers Foundation 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 8 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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