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The Chazen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $690k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UW FOUNDATION CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART | $690,401 |
| 92ND STREET Y | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE | $26,000 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN | $25,000 |
| NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| JCC ROCKLAND | $25,000 |
| LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $12,500 |
| PENGUIN REP THEATRE | $10,000 |
| JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER | $10,000 |
| RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROCKLAND COUNTRY PRIDE CENTER | $10,000 |
| ROCKLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE REFORM TEMPLE OF ROCKLAND | $10,000 |
| MONTEFIORE NYACK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RCROCKLAND COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +165%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $91k · revenue +21%
- NFNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BABADGER ADVOCATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +109%
- NYNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is People to People Inc. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
102 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. 102 of the 158 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ROCKLAND COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ROCKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds JCC ROCKLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montefiore Nyack Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ROCKLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BADGER ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds URBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Leonore Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Kathy Chazen Family Charitable Trust · Dean Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Rockland Community Foundation · Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc · The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation · The Kurz Family Foundation Ltd · Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation Inc · Kate Spade New York 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 The Chazen 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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