New York · Private foundation
The Chazen 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Chazen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $1.3M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $965k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $449k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $354k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $21k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $152k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $89k | 82% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $83k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Armstrong House Museum | $1,000,100 | 2 | 23% |
| Rockland County Pride Center Inc | $228,018 | 8 | 11% |
| The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jcc Rockland Inc | $123,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Newport Festivals Foundation Inc | $115,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Museum of Arts and Design | $106,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for Safety & Change Inc | $105,300 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $91,440 | 3 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $67,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chazen 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 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
How this is measured
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About The Chazen Foundation
- How much does The Chazen Foundation give?
- The Chazen Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,314,255 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Chazen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Philanthropy (12%), Religion (10%).
- Who are The Chazen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Louis Armstrong House Museum ($1.0M), Rockland County Pride Center Inc ($228k), The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association ($150k).
- Does The Chazen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chazen 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 The Chazen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Leonore Foundation Inc, Webster Bank Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Chazen Foundation based?
- The Chazen Foundation is based in NY.
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