· Private foundation
The Chernow Fund Inc
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 $10k35 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE MACULA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| THE FATHERS DAYMOTHERS DAY COUNCIL INC | $16,000 |
| MADISON SQUARE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC | $15,000 |
| NY ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $10,000 |
| HADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| ANN LIGUORI FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MARTY LYONS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL OF GREAT NECK | $7,575 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL OF GREAT NECK | $6,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
56 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 11 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE6× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +116%- PBPALM BEACH OPERA INC4× · 2017–2022 · $76k · revenue +69%
- TMTHE MACULA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MSMADISON SQUARE GARDEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2024 · $39k
- BRBORA REGIONAL HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $25k
- UOUniversity of Tennesseeone grant, 2022 · $23k
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.
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
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Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.
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Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 131 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 NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MACULA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds ISLANDERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANN LIGUORI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds FATHER'S DAYMOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Marty Lyons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY ↗
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: Michael Chernow Trust FBO Charity Ccc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Petrocelli Family Foundation · The Gershwind Foundation · Dolgin Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chernow Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chernow Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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