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.

Jack Chester Foundation

Jack Chester Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k75 grants · $208k
$10k–50k8 grants · $167k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
KESHER LD INC	$5,000

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.

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Its 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 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 112 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Total granted

$2.1M

$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+26%

Still filing today

59%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

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 Missionsgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +182%
TI
THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
one grant, 2022 · $5k

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.

Sherit Isroel

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University of Judaism Foundation

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Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

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

Religion

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

Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International

American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

Bronfman Youth Fellowships to Israel in Inc

Youth Development

American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

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

Education

Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Bar-Ilan University; 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.

04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 172 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)

92/96

Grantees still filing

71/96

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,340,250Philanthropy$1,051,000International$415,000Human Services$150,000Education$133,000Arts & Culture$89,000Religion$48,000

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.

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

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 Jack Chester Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack Chester Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

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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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.

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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

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home