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Walter & Naomi Chucnin Foundation at a glance

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Walter & Naomi Chucnin 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.

$177k
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$298kInternational$189kPhilanthropy$133kCivil Rights$77kEducation$74kHealth$68kHuman Services$55kRecreation & Sports$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k77 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HADASSAH$30,000
ACHIM L'CHAYIM (BROTHERS FOR LIFE)$15,000
JF & CS$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER$10,000
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART$5,000
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC$5,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$5,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$5,000
KEREM SHALOM INC$4,175
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$3,600
MAZON$3,000
ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS$3,000
ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL NEW ENGLAND$3,000
PAN-MASS CHALLENGE$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $18k → 6%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 8%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $10k → 6%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $10k → 20%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%CAMP JORI: $2k → 7%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $5k → 6%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $3k → 20%CAMP JORI: $1k → 7%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $1k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $5k → 6%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $600 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $300 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $5k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $5k → 14%JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI: $3k → 14%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $2k → 8%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
OK
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 98 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

98 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
32

Total granted

$1.0M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+91%

Still filing today

57%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +109%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +53%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    5× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • MN
    MISC - NUMEROUS WITH LESSER AMOUNTS
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • M3
    MISC - 30 OTHERS AT 360 AND LESS
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
5
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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6
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
7
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
8
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
12
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Newport Art Museum and Art Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 159 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
60/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HADASSAH: $128,636 · OtherHADASSAHACHIM L'CHAIM: $65,500 · OtherACHIM L'CHAIMISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS: $30,000 · OtherRASHI SCHOOL INC: $28,000 · Other+112 more: $552,633 · Other+112 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $33,600 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $29,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $19,800 · InternationalThe American Je…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $18,600 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRA…HIAS INC: $15,000 · InternationalHIAS INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL K…THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $8,800 · InternationalROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $6,000 · International+6 more: $12,350 · International+6 moreISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $38,000 · Human ServicesIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $13,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $12,500 · Human ServicesJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc: $11,500 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,100 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $3,000 · Human Services+3 more: $6,750 · Human ServicesCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $69,750 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc: $7,900 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $32,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $20,300 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $4,000 · Health+4 more: $2,050 · HealthJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER: $12,120 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $3,000 · ReligionCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $3,000 · ReligionAmerican Zionist Movement Inc: $2,300 · ReligionTHE MUSSAR INSTITUTE: $2,000 · Religion
Other$804,769International$174,650Human Services$89,850Philanthropy$77,650Civil Rights$40,500Health$30,350Religion$22,420

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $69,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $38,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $33,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $20,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $19,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $18,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $13,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER: $12,120 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc: $11,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $8,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $7,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $5,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $4,485 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $3,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $3,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER BOSTON: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Israel Magen Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD PEOPLE FUND 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…The Champlin Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe Rhode Island Comm…Ejmp Fund for Philant…Alletta Morris McBean…The Sand FoundationVan Beuren Charitable…Frederick Henry Princ…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Citizens Charitable F…Eastern Bank Foundati…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA28.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Champlin Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · The Sand Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Walter & Naomi Chucnin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter & Naomi Chucnin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 159 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-PF 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home