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291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$496k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
42
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 34
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving29$496k28%
FY202328$591k18%
FY202234$566k41%
FY202129$494k45%
FY202025$388kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.8MHealth$175kHuman Services$121kAnimals$118kReligion$68kEmployment$58kPhilanthropy$35kFood & Nutrition$27kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWender Weis Foundation for Children: $117,627 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetThe Animal Medical Center: $116,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGeisinger Health: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAce Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $12,060 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $9,614 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCareers Through Culinary Arts Program Dba Culinary Careers Program: $8,036 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Promise Education Fund Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $3,625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Cause: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $3,075 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Good Dog Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBideawee Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoxbury Volunteer Fire Department: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Service Society of New York: $1,218 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe V Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Women's Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dollywood Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoxbury Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Enterprise for a Diverse America: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Feather Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA16.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee

How much does 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee give?
291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee reported 42 grants totaling $495,757 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (72%), Health (7%), Human Services (5%).
Who are 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Wender Weis Foundation for Children ($118k), The Animal Medical Center ($116k), Friends Seminary ($60k).
Does 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is 291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee based?
291 Foundation Wender Nancy L Trustee is based in NY.

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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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