· Private foundation
Chess Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $508k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| KING SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH | $50,000 |
| SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS | $50,000 |
| YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES | $50,000 |
| JAY HERITAGE CENTER | $38,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID | $35,000 |
| CITY GROWERS | $35,000 |
| CAPITAL SQUASH INC | $35,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER NEW YORK | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER | $35,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| PAN MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE | $25,000 |
| FOCUS FOR FUTURE | $25,000 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +10%- TJTHE JAY HERITAGE CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $283k · revenue +57%
- FWFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MSMOUNT SINAIone grant, 2020 · $206k
PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +25%- WIWASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +15%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The program was formed to foster, promote, encourage and support the playing of soccer in the city of rye, new york.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
As a new york city based nonprofit, we're dedicated to transforming the health and well-being of our communities through inclusive and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential.
York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Rye country day school is a coeducational, college preparatory school dedicated to providing students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 with an excellent education using both traditional and innovative approaches. in a nurturing and…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS FOR A FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Capitol Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RYE NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UP2US INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW CITY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RYE FREE READING ROOM ↗
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 New York Community Trust · Ncw Family Foundation Inc · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation · The Dunn Family Foundation · John and Jennifer Eckerson Family Foundation C/O Citrin Cooperman · The Glickenhaus Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Nicholas & Christina Raho Foundationinc · Synchrony Foundation · The Snyder Family Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chess Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chess Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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