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THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC
THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC (New York) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $889,490 to it, the largest being PETER & JERI DEJANA FOUNDATION ($365,500). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $913k
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $889k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What The Community Chest of Port Washington Ny Inc does
Mission
The primary purpose of the Community Chest is to raise funds to be disbursed as grants to other carefully screened not for profit organizations that provide a wide range of services to the residents of Port Washington. The Community Chest also rents space within its facility at below market rates to non profit organizations,helping them fulfill their missions. In March 2020, the Community Chest initiated and administered the Port Washington COVID-19 Community Response Fund to make COVID-19 emergency grants for food needs, housing costs and other expenses to existing community and faith-based organizations that have strong experience supporting Port Washington residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Community Chest awarded grants ranging from $2,500 to $32,000 to 29 not for profit 501(c)(3) organizations for specific programs or general operating expenses. These organizations provided services to Port Washington residents which included: day care; domestic violence and child abuse prevention classes; college scholarships; job training; recreational, athletic, and educational opportunities for children and teens; enviornmental programning, and cultural programs. Reports from these agencies indicate more than 7,000 residents benefitted from the services provided by Community Chest grants to these organizations.
$340,937 spentof which $311,727 as grants$467,453 earned by the program67% of program spendingThe Community Chest rented approximately 13500 square feet of space at less than fair value rates to nine not for Profits. These rates included provision of heat, electricity and water. The organizations renting these spaces used them to offer: an art cooperative that offers programming for youths and adults; a job training program for adults with disabilities; environmental protection and education programs; after school tutoring and activities for youth; assistance for the indigent; programs, services, research and advocacy for people with autism spectrum disorders; and programs concerned with the preservation of the cultural traditions of Long Island.
$171,320 spentof which $34,146 as grants$349,257 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $512,257.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+14%).
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.
30% of THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Robert Keller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $17k → $147k.
7 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 30% · 2019 69% · 2020 33% · 2021 57% · 2022 58% · 2023 49% — 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
53% of THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
82% of THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY 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. $292k 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
THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC?
- THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC (New York) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $889,490 to it, the largest being PETER & JERI DEJANA FOUNDATION ($365,500). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $889,490 in grants to THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC?
- PETER & JERI DEJANA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $365,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY 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 44 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