New York · Nonprofit
CHAI FOUNDATION
CHAI FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHAI FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,726 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Barry S Sternlicht Foundationshared funders
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of CHAI FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHAI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
CHAI FOUNDATION draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 371 organizations that share them.
- The Barry S Sternlicht Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chayim V Chesedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arj Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- S&E Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sragowicz Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce and Frank Su Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hashem Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Siddiqui Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHAI FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAI FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAI FOUNDATION?
- CHAI FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to CHAI FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAI FOUNDATION?
- The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAI FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing