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The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation

Supports charitable, educational, & religious purposes of jewish comm federation of sf.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
39
Grants FY2025
101
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500,000
Organizations funded a year
96 to 172
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$133k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $273k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsInternationalEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving30$4.7M3%
FY2024101$4.2M9%
FY2023101$4.1M3%
FY202296$3.4M10%
FY2021172$11M33%
FY202097$3.2M38%
FY2019102$2.3M25%
FY201899$1.9M29%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$7.5MEducation$5.2MHuman Services$4.2MInternational$4.0MReligion$3.6MHealth$3.6MPhilanthropy$3.6MArts & Culture$2.2MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 242 grantees
All grantees of The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay$3,005,00077%
California Homebuilding Foundation$2,762,900463%
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$1,485,00092%
Union for Reform Judaism$1,413,9527n/a
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$1,280,00090%
Anti-Defamation League$1,020,00060%
American Israel Education Foundation Inc$1,020,00080%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$975,00060%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$915,00090%
Protect Democracy Project$855,00081%
Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay$754,000310%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$675,00040%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$670,00082%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$660,00091%
Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc$645,00090%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$605,00090%
Hias Inc$600,00050%
Berkeley Hillel$592,00096%
The Chinati Foundation$541,71686%
Eisenhower Medical Center$498,00070%
Last Chance at Life All Breed Animal Rescue and Adoptions$490,000536%
Birthright Israel Foundation$470,00060%
Temple Isaiah of Contra Costa County$464,3966n/a
Human Rights Campaign Foundation$445,00081%
Congregation Kol Shofar$438,0009n/a
Congregation Emanu-El$413,2168n/a
Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay$407,00081%
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation$390,00071%
Auburn Theological Seminary$375,00073%
Uc San Diego Foundation$368,00080%
Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula$356,00082%
The Abraham Initiatives Inc$350,00087%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$340,00070%
San Francisco Friends School$325,00032%
Marin Academy$314,10941%
The Bay School of San Francisco$302,50031%
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice$272,50053%
Friends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism$265,000413%
Living Desert The$247,72411%
J Street Education Fund Inc$240,00051%
Moishe House$228,00061%
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco$221,40061%
The Film Collaborative Inc$215,00031%
Feminist Majority Foundation$215,00081%
Israel Policy Forum Inc$200,00061%
Israel 21c$195,00084%
Lead with Horses$175,000529%
Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc$170,00081%
Sundance Institute$165,00070%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$145,00061%
Democratic Majority for Israel D/B/A Dmfi$135,00051%
Scpga Foundation Inc$135,00091%
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc$133,00071%
The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$130,00074%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$125,00070%
Women in Film$125,00023%
Jewish Learningworks$120,00052%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$118,00080%
Doc Society Inc$115,50072%
The World Union for Progressive Judaism Ltd$110,0004n/a
Leading Edge Allianceinc$105,00051%
Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc$105,00040%
Foundation for Animal Care & Education$105,00082%
The Park Theater Trust$100,00014%
Bernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center$100,00012%
Tahoe Fund$98,58052%
San Francisco Food Bank$98,00050%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$90,00080%
The Forward Association Inc$87,50050%
Nevada Humane Society$85,00020%
Wilderness Torah$80,85826%
American Heart Association Inc$80,00070%
Upstart Bay Area$80,00051%
Keshet Inc$76,00050%
Democracy Matters Foundation$75,00031%
National Jewish Health$72,00070%
Jewish Funders Network$71,50050%
Athlete Ally Inc$70,00061%
Glaad Inc$70,00050%
Reboot Inc$67,50080%
University of Wyoming Foundation$65,00070%
Fair Fight Action Inc$65,00030%
The Contemporary Jewish Museum$64,00050%
Interfaithfamilycom Inc$60,00050%
Glaad$60,0003n/a
Anti-Defamation League Foundation$60,00030%
Catapult Film Fund$60,00071%
American Cancer Society Inc$60,00040%
Storahtelling Lab Shul Inc$58,50042%
Bend the Arc a Jewish Partnership for Justice$58,0003n/a
A Wider Bridge$57,50051%
Urban Adamah$57,50061%
Chicken & Egg Films Inc$57,50060%
70 Faces Media Inc$55,00050%
Blood Cancer United Inc$55,00060%
The Battery Foundation$54,30021%
Headlands Center for the Arts$51,00050%
Independent Jewish World Cinema Inc$51,0005n/a
Democracy Works Inc$50,00040%
American Civil Liberties Union Inc$50,00010%
Washington Institute for Near East Policy$50,00040%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$50,00050%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$50,00030%
Crisis Text Line Inc$50,00050%
Hebrew Free Loan Association of San Francisco$50,00011%
Extrafood$45,00041%
Hazon Inc$45,00041%
Oakland Museum of California$45,0005n/a
San Francisco Ballet Association$43,30070%
The Blue Card Inc$42,50040%
Temple Isaiah$41,4761n/a
Berkeley Repertory Theatre$40,00040%
Alameda County Community Food Bank$40,00050%
Bay Area Lyme Foundation$40,00040%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$38,50030%
The Uc Davis Foundation$38,00030%
San Diego County Junior Golf Association$35,00051%
US Cyberdome$35,0003n/a
Ms Foundation for Women Inc$35,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc$35,00020%
Marfa Education Foundation Inc$33,00059%
Compass Family Services$32,50040%
Smithsonian Institution$31,00040%
Ecopeace Middle East Environmental Ngo Forum$30,00021%
Onetable Inc$30,00020%
Global Lyme Alliance Inc$30,00030%
Environmental Health Coalition$30,00030%
Ikar$30,0002n/a
American Cancer Society$30,0003n/a
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee$30,00040%
Global Fund for Women Inc$30,00040%
Institute for Jewish & Community Research DBA Bechol Lashon$30,00022%
University of Denver$30,00020%
Ort America Inc$29,50030%
Creative Growth Art Center$29,10040%
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation In$27,500310%
Doctors Outreach Inc$26,000314%
Shelter Inc$25,00040%
North County Junior Golf Association$25,00042%
American Red Cross$25,0003n/a
Pi Lambda Phi Educational Foundation Inc$25,00047%
Boys & Girls Club of Harlem Inc$25,00011%
Rotacare Bay Area Inc$25,00041%
The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute$25,00040%
Israaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc$25,00010%
The Lawfare Project Inc$25,00011%
US Friends of Dror Israel Inc$25,00012%
World Central Kitchen Inc$25,00010%
The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc$25,00010%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$25,00010%
Laughing Pony Rescue$25,00044%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$25,00040%
Marin Primary & Middle School$24,50020%
First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland Calif$24,0002n/a
Common Sense Media$23,00040%
Marfa Public Radio Corporation$23,00020%
The Reutlinger Community$23,0003n/a
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$22,50030%
Rainforest Trust$22,50030%
Waterkeeper Alliance Inc$22,50030%
Earth Island Institute Inc$22,50030%
B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization$22,50030%
Zen Hospice Project Dba Zen Caregiving Project$22,00041%
At the Well Project Inc$20,00012%
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$20,00010%
The Middle East Peace Dialogue Network Inc$20,00020%
The Brigid Alliance Inc$20,00010%
Hairtostay$20,00031%
Jewish Film Institute$20,00021%
Voteorg$20,00020%
H-Om-E$20,0001n/a
Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation$18,00021%
San Francisco Film Society$16,00020%
Equal Justice Initiative$16,00020%
New York University School of Business Foundation Inc$15,00034%
Barton Memorial Hospital Foundation$15,00020%
Alliance for Youth Organizing$15,00010%
The Voter Participation Center$15,00010%
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States Inc$15,00031%
The Coral Reef Alliance$15,00020%
Coastal K9 German Shepherd Rescue$13,00023%
Slide Ranch$11,00020%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$10,00010%
Clean Water Fund$10,00010%
Meals on Wheels Contra Costa Inc$10,00010%
Moving Traditions$10,00010%
Center for Technology and Civic Life$10,00010%
NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc$10,00010%
Rock the Vote$10,00011%
New York University$10,00010%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund$10,00010%
Alliance for Justice$10,00010%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$10,00011%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$10,00010%
Project Drawdown$10,00010%
Children's Hospital Oakland Family House$10,000214%
The Idi Foundation Inc Fka American Friends of the Israel Democ$10,00010%
League of Women Voters Education Fund$10,00010%
Nueva School$10,00010%
The Reutlinger Community$10,00010%
California Academy of Sciences$10,00010%
American Friends of Koret Israel Economic Development Funds$10,00014%
Israel on Campus Coalition Inc$10,00010%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$10,00010%
Magnes Museum Foundation$10,00022%
18 Reasons$10,00010%
Apparel Impact Institute$10,00010%
826 Valencia$10,00010%
Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn$10,00020%
Contra Costa Jewish Community Center Inc$10,00012%
Pro Kids Golf Academy Inc$10,00020%
California State Parks Foundation$10,00010%
The Netherland-America Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Contra Costa Cnty Flood Control & Water$8,5001n/a
East Bay Spca$8,50010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$8,50010%
American Humane Association$8,50010%
Youth Speaks Inc$8,00010%
Ignite$8,00010%
University of California Davis$8,0001n/a
Adamah Inc$7,50010%
National Council of Jewish Women Inc San Francisco Section$7,50016%
The Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc$7,50011%
Yosemite Foundation$6,00010%
MARFA THEATRE dba Marfa Live Arts$6,00014%
Conservation International Foundation$6,00010%
Savory Instituteorg Inc$6,00010%
The Mexican Museum$6,00011%
Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library$6,00010%
FOR-SITE Foundation$6,00011%
Women Make Movies Inc$5,0001n/a
LEGAL COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE dba LAW CNTR TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$5,00018%
Callisto$5,0001n/a
American Jewish Committee$5,00010%
Groundspark$5,0001n/a
United Nations Foundation Inc$5,00010%
University of Illinois Foundation$5,00010%
Childhelp Inc$5,00010%
Utah Film Center$5,00010%
Glide Foundation$5,0001n/a
San Diego Humane Society and Spca$5,00010%
Giffords$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Community Center of the East Bay: $3,005,000 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetCalifornia Homebuilding Foundation: $2,762,900 over 4y, 63% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $1,485,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $1,280,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $1,020,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $1,020,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $975,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $915,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetProtect Democracy Project: $855,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay: $754,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $675,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBrady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $670,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $660,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $645,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $605,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHias Inc: $600,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBerkeley Hillel: $592,000 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetThe Chinati Foundation: $541,716 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $498,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLast Chance at Life All Breed Animal Rescue and Adoptions: $490,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $470,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Foundation: $445,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Family and Community Services East Bay: $407,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $390,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetAuburn Theological Seminary: $375,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $368,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula: $356,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetThe Abraham Initiatives Inc: $350,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $340,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Friends School: $325,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMarin Academy: $314,109 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Bay School of San Francisco: $302,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice: $272,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetFriends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism: $265,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetLiving Desert The: $247,724 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJ Street Education Fund Inc: $240,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMoishe House: $228,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Community Center of San Francisco: $221,400 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Film Collaborative Inc: $215,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFeminist Majority Foundation: $215,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetIsrael Policy Forum Inc: $200,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetIsrael 21c: $195,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetLead with Horses: $175,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetClal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc: $170,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSundance Institute: $165,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $145,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetDemocratic Majority for Israel D/B/A Dmfi: $135,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetScpga Foundation Inc: $135,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA91.8× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay · Jewish Communal Fund · John Pritzker Family Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation

How much does The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation give?
The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $5,132,245 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 96 and 172 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (18%), Education (13%), Human Services (10%).
Who are The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Community Center of the East Bay ($3.0M), California Homebuilding Foundation ($2.8M), Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc ($1.5M).
Does The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation, The Jewish Community Foundation.
Where is The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation based?
The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 262 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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