New York · Private foundation
Rocking Chair 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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 48
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $244k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Rocking Chair Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 50 | $70k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $101k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $97k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $160k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $151k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $218k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Legal Aid Society | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc | $91,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York Studio School | $65,930 | 6 | 1% |
| Bank Street College of Education | $34,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Lymphoma Research Foundation | $29,870 | 2 | 0% |
| Charlotte Country Day School | $27,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Harlem Children's Zone Inc | $22,024 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Center for Human Rights | $21,250 | 3 | 0% |
| National Network of Abortion Funds Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| National Dance Institute | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($190k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rocking Chair 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: The New York Community Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Fidelity Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Rocking Chair Foundation
- How much does Rocking Chair Foundation give?
- Rocking Chair Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $70,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 48 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Rocking Chair Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Crime & Legal (23%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Rocking Chair Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Legal Aid Society ($150k), Jackie Robinson Foundation Inc ($91k), New York Studio School ($66k).
- Does Rocking Chair Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rocking Chair 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 Rocking Chair Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Rocking Chair Foundation based?
- Rocking Chair Foundation is based in NY.
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