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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 FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Philanthropy$892kReligion$633kInternational$556kArts & Culture$295kEducation$257kHealth$151kHuman Services$115kFood & Nutrition$61kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k75 grants · $208k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$100,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$45,000
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COMMITTEE$30,000
CUBAN HEBREW CONGREGATION OF MIAMI$25,000
MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMM CTR$18,000
HILLEL FOUNDATION AT UNIV FLORIDA$17,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$12,000
TEMPLE MENORAH$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL$7,000
IMPACTISRAEL$6,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO$6,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF$6,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL$6,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $4k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $3k → 6%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $1k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $3k → 6%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $1k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $3k → 6%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $1k → 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $2k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $2k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $1k → 6%DAVE AND MARY ALPER JEWISH: $5k → 15%DAVE AND MARY ALPER JEWISH: $5k → 15%DAVE AND MARY ALPER JEWISH: $5k → 15%DAVE AND MARY ALPER JEWISH: $5k → 15%DAVE AND MARY ALPER JEWISH: $3k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLA: $2k → 15%MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMM CTR: $18k → 15%MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMM CTR: $6k → 15%MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMM CTR: $6k → 15%MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMM CTR: $4k → 15%MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMM CTR: $3k → 15%MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMM CTR: $3k → 15%MICHAEL ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMM CTR: $3k → 15%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $10k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $6k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OR NATIONAL MISSIONS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

Which US states your grants reach

ME
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 112 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

112 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112
42

Total granted

$2.1M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+18%

Still filing today

59%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $82k · revenue +115%
  • MR
    MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +71%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HILLEL
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • AF
    American Friends Of Or National Missions
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +37%
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sherit Isroel
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2
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
5
Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International
6
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
7
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc
Youth Development
9
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
10
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
12
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Bar-Ilan University and the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%4%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%31%20–35yr9%27%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%1%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr9%24%35–55yr12%53%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/104
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,940

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 172 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/96
Grantees still filing
70/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COMMITTEE — $200,000 · OtherHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COMMITTEECUBAN HEBREW CONGREGATION OF MIAMI INC — $170,000 · OtherCUBAN HEBREW CONGREGATION OF MIAMI INCHILLEL FOUNDATION AT UNIV FLORIDA — $75,000 · OtherHILLEL FOUNDATION AT UNIV FLORIDATEMPLE MENORAH — $75,000 · OtherTEMPLE MENORAHMIAMI JEWISH HEALTH — $70,000 · Other+93 more — $750,250 · Other+93 moreGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $835,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INCPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $147,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC+5 more — $69,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $82,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE…JEWISH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 · InternationalJEWISH LEADERS…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $33,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $33,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEN…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $26,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISR…PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC — $26,000 · InternationalPARDES INSTITU…IMPACTISRAEL INC — $21,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $19,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC — $14,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $14,000 · International+17 more — $82,000 · International+17 moreMICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $43,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC — $41,000 · Human ServicesDAVE & MARY ALPER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $18,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN — $14,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Friends Of Or National Missions — $5,000 · Human Services+3 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesKESHER LD INC KESHER — $35,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $34,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $17,000 · EducationUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $14,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY — $9,000 · EducationHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH — $8,000 · EducationMEOR INC — $7,000 · Education+3 more — $9,000 · Education70 FACES MEDIA INC — $23,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER — $19,000 · Arts & CultureJUDAISM AND DEMOCRACY ACTION ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureALGEMEINER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureMOISHE HOUSE — $10,000 · ReligionOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $10,000 · ReligionMAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC — $9,000 · ReligionYehudi Inc — $8,000 · ReligionTORAH LIVE INC — $4,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $2,000 · ReligionZAKA NORTH INC — $2,000 · Religion+3 more — $3,000 · Religion
Other$1,340,250Philanthropy$1,051,000International$415,000Human Services$150,000Education$133,000Arts & Culture$89,000Religion$48,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $835,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $147,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $82,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $43,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC — $41,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $39,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKESHER LD INC KESHER — $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $33,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC — $33,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC — $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC — $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budget70 FACES MEDIA INC — $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDAVE & MARY ALPER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC — $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC — $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER — $19,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND — $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MIAMI HILLEL FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC — $15,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC — $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN — $14,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Livnot ULehibanot — $12,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER INC) — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORANIM INC — $10,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALGEMEINER INC — $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAIMONIDES SHALOM ACADEMY INC — $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYehudi Inc — $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHECK HILLEL COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds KESHER LD INC KESHER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVE & MARY ALPER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

June B Gelbart Founda…Greater Miami Jewish …Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…The Jewish Federation…Jewish Federation of …Jewish Community Fede…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Federation of …The Falic Family Priv…Nash Family Foundation
June B Gelbart FoundationFL55.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jack Chester Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Jack Chester Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jack Chester 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 172 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines