Grants awarded
Who does Rocking Chair Foundation fund?
Rocking Chair Foundation has awarded $579,000 across 227 grants to 77 grantees between 2020 and 2024. Its giving concentrates in education. Its typical grant is $1,000, with most between $300 and $1,250. Repeat grantees receive a median $1,000 versus $750 for first-time grantees.
Total awarded
$579K
Typical grant
$1K
Grantees
77
Grants
227
Years
2020–2024
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Follow |
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| T The Legal Aid Society | $150K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| B Bank Street School for Children | $82K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
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$46K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Jackie Robinson Foundation INC
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$40K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | NY | |
Lymphoma Research Foundation
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$30K | 2 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| M Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $25K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| N New York University School of Law | $14K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| N National Network of Abortion Funds | $12K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
National Dance Institute INC
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$10K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
The Osborne Association INC
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$7K | 2 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
Leading for Children
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$6K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NJ | |
| C Coalition for Southern Equality | $6K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Southern Center for Human Rights
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$6K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | GA | |
Shady Hill School
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$6K | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
Center for Death Penalty Litigation
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$6K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | NC | |
| I Individual recipient | $6K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
Wesleyan University
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$6K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CT | |
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$5K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $5K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$5K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Project Healthy Minds Corporation
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$5K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | PA | |
| B Buffalo Seminary Annual Fund | $5K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| T The Jewish Board | $5K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| T The Mountain School | $5K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice INC
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$5K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NJ | |
| B Bronx High School of Science | $4K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$4K | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | MT | |
| T The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund | $4K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| T The New Jewish Home - Fund for the Aged | $3K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| N Northern Westchester Hospital | $3K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$3K | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | NY | |
| B Bank Street College | $3K | 2 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Mary C Wheeler School INC
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$2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | RI | |
| I Individual recipient | $2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| D Doctors Without Borders | $2K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| C Concord Academy | $2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| H Hospital for Special Surgery Foundation | $2K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| K Klingenstein Center Teachers College | $2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| T Trustees of Amherst College | $2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
The New 42nd Street INC
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$2K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$2K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $2K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Center for Community Transitions
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$2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NC | |
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$2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | AL | |
| N NAACP Legal Defense Fund | $2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Rye Country Day School
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$2K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Trip of a Lifetime INC
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$2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| B Bedford Fire Department | $2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| B Boys & Girls Club of Dubois | $2K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
The Union of Concerned Scientists INC
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$2K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | MA | |
| P Project Morry | $2K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| D Dubois Museum Association | $2K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| T The Mountain School of Milton Academy | $1K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| W Wyoming Stock Growers Endowment Fund | $1K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| A Alzheimers Association | $1K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| W Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust | $1K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| R Regis High School | $1K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $1K | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| A Alzhemiers Association | $1K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| D Dubois Museum | $1K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
The Brotherhood Sister Sol INC
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$1K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$1K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | IL | |
| B Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington | $1K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
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$850 | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | ME | |
Student Leadership Network INC
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$750 | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Uptown Stories INC
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$600 | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Crisis Assistance Ministry
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$500 | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | NC | |
| T The Elm Project | $500 | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| G Giving Green Fund | $500 | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| N National Bighorn Sheep | $500 | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
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$500 | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
New York Peace Institute INC
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$500 | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| C Covenant House International | $500 | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| B Beacon Academy | $250 | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
Highlander Research & Education Center INC
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$250 | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | TN | |
| C Crisis Assitance Ministry | $250 | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $100 | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
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