How much does Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation give?

Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,319,802 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (78%), Health (8%), International (7%).

Who are Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ($122k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($36k), American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc ($30k).

Does Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation 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 Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation based?

Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation is based in FL.

Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation

Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$1.3M

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.4MHealth$142kInternational$122kScience & Tech$62kHuman Services$23kReligion$15kEducation$9kHousing & Shelter$9kOther$0

02FY2023 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k37 grants · $26k
$250k+1 grant · $1.3M

$100

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Jacobson Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish	$1,293,522
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$7,500
JAFCO	$3,600
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES	$2,150
ISRAEL GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND	$2,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY	$2,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIEN	$2,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY	$1,000
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK	$1,000
YACHAD	$1,000
CHAI LIFELINE	$500
AM YISRAEL CHAI	$250
IMAGINATION PRODUCTIONS	$250
ASCENT OF SAFED	$250
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT ERETZ HATZVI	$250

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$360k · 45 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$360k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+36%

Still filing today

60%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsReligionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
4× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +206%
AC
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +168%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
4× · 2019–2022 · $24k · revenue +115%

Funded once

RJ
RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
one grant, 2017 · $3k
IG
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLINDgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%
JM
JFS Mental Health
one grant, 2019 · $360

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Sherit Isroel

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

The Jerusalem Connection

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Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

University of Judaism Foundation

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

26/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,397,922Philanthropy$150,255International$142,100Community Improvement$122,450Human Services$20,650Housing & Shelter$9,000Health$1,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur and Phyllis Wachtel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home