How much does Community Chest South Shore give?

Community Chest South Shore reported 23 itemized grants totaling $353,450, out of $482,950 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Community Chest South Shore fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (9%), Crime & Legal (5%).

Who are Community Chest South Shore's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Five Towns Early Learning Center Inc ($209k), Five Towns Community Center Inc ($150k), Hebrew Free Loan Society Inc ($100k).

Does Community Chest South Shore fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Chest South Shore?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is Community Chest South Shore based?

Community Chest South Shore is based in NY.

Community Chest South Shore

Community Chest South Shore at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Community Chest South Shore

To provide financial support to agencies within the Five Towns community.

$483k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$68k

Largest

01What it funds

0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$501kEducation$159kCrime & Legal$100kReligion$56kHealth$51kFood & Nutrition$47kYouth Development$40kInternational$23kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 23 grants below total $353,450, the rows itemized in this filing. The $482,950 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $129,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k22 grants · $286k
$50k–250k1 grant · $68k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$67,950
Nassau County Aux Police	$32,000
Collective Kindness Inc	$30,000
Five Towns Early Learning Cen	$18,000
Chabad of Five Towns	$15,000
Work At It	$13,500
Kulanu	$12,500
Lawrence High School	$12,500
HAFTR High School	$12,000
Leon Mayar Fund	$10,000
Rock and Wrap It Up Inc	$10,000
Davis Memorial Fund	$10,000
Lawrence Woodmere Academy	$10,000
Shulamith School for Girls	$10,000
Domestic Harmony Foundation	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 21 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+9%

Still filing today

43%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationEmploymentHealthCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

FT
FIVE TOWNS EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $209k · revenue +37%
WI
WORKATIT INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $54k · revenue +59%
RO
RAY OF HOPE INSTITUTE INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +646%

Funded once

HF
HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +9%
S
SHOP
one grant, 2018 · $50k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $25k

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.

04Its field

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.

Hannah Kosher Food Shabbat Fndt for Poor & Needy Women Corp

food pantry

Human Services

American Friends of Yeshivat Hesder Rishon Lezion Inc

To help school children in financial need

Religion

American Friends of Kiryat Chinuch Labonim Inc

To provide grants to institutions providing religious education, shelter,social & health services to underprivliged children

International

Friends of Harim Inc

Charitable grantmaking to religious institutions.

Religion

Zichron Meshilem Feish Inc

Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations

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Tat Family Relief Fund of Kolel Sha-Arei Shlomo Inc

To solicit funds for the needy English speaking immigrant families, mainly in Israel.

Philanthropy

Noam Shabbos Inc

To provide financial and other assistance to needy persons and families in Israel

Religion

Keren Dushinsky Inc

The organization provides charitable financial assistance to low-income families to help meet significant family expenses.

Human Services

Jewish Intuition Inc

Jewish Intuition Inc provides help to children who are struggling in their school home environment. We set the child up in their school environment or place them in a new school where they can better flourish

Education

Tzedek Vemunah Foundation

Religion

Avodah Shblayv

To provide charitable distributions to poverty stricken families in the new york area. this assistance consists of food packages before jewish holidays, financial aid to widows and impoverished families, help with medical bills, and…

Philanthropy

Kfar Yeladim David Inc

To care for the basic needs of disadvantaged children, to help them overcome trauma and rehabilitate them to become functional and productive members of society.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Five Towns Early Learning Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lawrence Woodmere Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 36 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

11/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,782,245Human Services$171,000Employment$53,500Health$50,000Community Improvement$46,000International$35,000Education$32,500Religion$30,000

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Chest South Shore funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Chest South Shore. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home