New York · Private foundation
Ruth & Ezra Chesky 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.
- $14k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $304k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Civil RightsArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $13k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $9k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $13k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $9k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Food & Nutrition$25kArts & Culture$8kInternational$8kHousing & Shelter$5kHealth$4kCivil Rights$4kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $6,500 | 5 | 0% |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Green-Wood Historic Fund Inc | $2,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Camba Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $6,500 | 5 | 0% |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Green-Wood Historic Fund Inc | $2,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Camba Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lower East Side Tenement Museum | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Transit Initiatives Corporation | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Friends of Moldova | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Student Press Law Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mdrc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.
About Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation
- How much does Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation give?
- Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $14,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (42%), Arts & Culture (14%), International (14%).
- Who are Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Citymeals-On-Wheels ($8k), City Harvest Inc ($7k), God's Love We Deliver Inc ($6k).
- Does Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruth & Ezra Chesky 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.
- Where is Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation based?
- Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundation is based in NY.
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