· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM | $1,000,000 |
| JCC ROCKLAND | $50,000 |
| 92ND STREET Y | $50,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE | $26,000 |
| NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN | $25,000 |
| LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $12,500 |
| THE REFORM TEMPLE OF ROCKLAND | $11,132 |
| PENGUIN REP THEATRE | $10,000 |
| ROCKLAND COUNTRY PRIDE CENTER | $10,000 |
| MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER | $10,000 |
| MONTEFIORE NYACK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECT | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $243k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM2× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +554%
- RCROCKLAND COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +165%
- JRJCC ROCKLAND INC4× · 2022–2025 · $123k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BABADGER ADVOCATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +109%
- EYELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +138%
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
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.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
How this is measured
104 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. 104 of the 159 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- 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 JCC ROCKLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Montefiore Nyack Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BADGER ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds URBANGLASS NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY GLASS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chazen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chazen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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