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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 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 $10k21 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUNA COMPOSITION LAB | $30,000 |
| COMPOSERS NOW FUND FOR NYC | $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 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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
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
- TJTHE JAZZ GALLERY7× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +111%
- 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
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 113 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 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 HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Harlem Chamber Players Inc ↗
- Who funds BANG ON A CAN ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BOWEN MCCAULEY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND RESTORE 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: 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
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 Cheswatyr Foundation Inc 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.
- 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
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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