New York · Nonprofit
CHASHAMA INC
CHASHAMA INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,981 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC ($355,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $514k
What Chashama Inc does
Mission
Since 1995, chashama has revitalized over 90 properties, providing invaluable opportunities to more than 12,000 artists. Chashama empowers artists at any stage of their career with affordable space to create and present. Chashama also brings vibrant, artistic programming to audiences of all ages and backgrounds by annually presenting over 130 free, public events to diverse neighborhoods throughout new york city. Chashamas workspace program provides low-cost artist studios in a professionally, supportive, creative environment. Our presentation program helps artists fully realize their creative visions through exhibition and performance space. With professional development workshops, visiting curator opportunities, and financial, logistical and marketing support, we invest in artists, increasing their prospects for success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Space to create gives artists affordable studio space. Its one of the largest subsidized studio residency programs in new york, it also provides artists with annual open studio events and access to materials for the arts. We currently have 139 studioes across the city, 95 of which are located at our hub at the historic brooklyn army terminal.
$367,094 spent30% of program spendingSpace to present provides free presentation spaces to performers, visual artists, and curators. In fy25 we provided 678 artists with the opportunity to present 266 events in professional, highly visible venues throughout new york. Our program nurtures excellence in the presentation of innovative, culturally diverse art and expands the publics access to quality artistic presentation.
$612,712 spentof which $126,200 as grants$154,106 earned by the program51% of program spendingSpace to connect collaborates with social service organizations to create high quality free arts programming for under-resourced communities in the bronx, washington heights, and queens. Last year we provided 89 free classes to 696 participants.
$143,139 spent12% of program spendingChanorth is chashamas international residency program, located in pine plains, new york since 2006. At chanorth, we hold 6 sessions from may to october, and weve served over 675 artists.
$75,617 spent$45,340 earned by the program6% of program spendingStorefront startup is chashamas program to support small business with subsidezed pop-up storefronts to restore financial stability, bringing commerce, beauty, and hope to nyc.
$6,842 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,205,404.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.8M (+67%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 15% · 2021 26% · 2022 15% · 2023 39% · 2024 35% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of CHASHAMA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Cindy Scholz
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $126k → $225k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHASHAMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
CHASHAMA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 60% · 2019 38% · 2020 44% · 2021 91% · 2022 27% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
18% of CHASHAMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of CHASHAMA INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
CHASHAMA INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHASHAMA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $235k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$235k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHASHAMA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHASHAMA INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHASHAMA INC?
- CHASHAMA INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,981 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC ($355,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHASHAMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,051,981 in grants to CHASHAMA INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHASHAMA INC?
- ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $355,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHASHAMA INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing