· Private foundation
The David Franklin 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 $10k24 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $35,375 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| HIGH JUMP | $25,000 |
| THE BUDDY PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| THEATRE ASPEN | $10,400 |
| IMPACTISRAEL | $10,000 |
| FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ASPEN HOPE CENTER | $7,500 |
| CENTER FOR SAFTEY AND CHANGE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH EDUCATION PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $4,200 |
| VANDERBILT HILLEL | $3,600 |
| AM SHALOM | $3,600 |
| ROHR CHABAD HOUSE AT VANDERBILT | $3,600 |
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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 +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 14 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HJHIGH JUMP9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +90%
- FWFrancis W Parker School8× · 2018–2025 · $92k · revenue +38%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO7× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- COCHABAD OF EAST BOCA INCone grant, 2023 · $33k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +197%
- AAASPEN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -49%
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.
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How this is measured
74 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. 74 of the 117 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 HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF JEWISH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SAFETY & CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE THE BEAT ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Louise Chazen Banon Family Charitable Tr Charitable Trust · Kathy Chazen Family Charitable Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David Franklin Chazen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David Franklin Chazen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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