· Private foundation
The Cheswatyr Foundation Inc
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 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPOSERS NOW FUND FOR NYC | $30,000 |
| LUNA COMPOSITION LAB | $30,000 |
| THE JAZZ GALLERY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ALARM WILL SOUND | $20,000 |
| KYO-SHIN-AN ARTS | $10,000 |
| MAKE MUSIC ALLIANCE | $8,500 |
| HARLEM CHAMBER PLAYERS | $8,000 |
| LOOKING GLASS ART | $7,500 |
| BANG ON A CAN | $7,000 |
| BLOWCOMOTION | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BRONX ACADEMY OF ART & DANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SPHINX FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
33 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 13 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JAZZ GALLERY7× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +184%
- AWALARM WILL SOUND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +65%
- NMNEW MUSIC USA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $63k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- PPNEAone grant, 2022 · $15k
- EETHELone grant, 2017 · $10k
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…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming.…
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…
Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The performance art museum (pam) is the first u.s. institution exclusively dedicated to the presentation and preservation of live art. our mission is to facilitate the powerful impact of live experiences that can profoundly transform our…
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 113 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 THE JAZZ GALLERY ↗
- Who funds LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC ↗
- Who funds ALARM WILL SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSIC USA INC ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Looking Glass Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds BLANK FORMS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ON THE INSIDE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds The Harlem Chamber Players Inc ↗
- Who funds HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BANG ON A CAN ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND RESTORE INC ↗
- Who funds BOWEN MCCAULEY DANCE INC ↗
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: Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · New Music USA Inc · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cheswatyr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cheswatyr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- IS183 Inc: 6% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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