Florida · Private foundation
Jack Chester 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.
- $475k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 88
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Jack Chester Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 79 | $320k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $298k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $303k | 1% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $347k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 88 | $344k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 83 | $289k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 88 | $293k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holocaust Memorial Committee | $200,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Cuban Hebrew Congregation of Miami Inc | $170,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $82,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Temple Menorah | $75,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center Inc | $43,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc | $41,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Colel Chabad | $39,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Scheck Hillel Community School | $39,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jewish Leadership Institute Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Kesher Ld Inc Kesher | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($604k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack Chester Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: June B Gelbart Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc · The Falic Family Private Foundation · Nash Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jack Chester Foundation
- How much does Jack Chester Foundation give?
- Jack Chester Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $475,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 88 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Jack Chester Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Religion (20%), International (17%).
- Who are Jack Chester Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Holocaust Memorial Committee ($200k), Cuban Hebrew Congregation of Miami Inc ($170k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($82k).
- Does Jack Chester Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack Chester Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jack Chester Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include June B Gelbart Foundation, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Jack Chester Foundation based?
- Jack Chester Foundation is based in FL.
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