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Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc

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.

$709k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 68
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$26M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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 arriving34$709k50%
FY20236$81k83%
FY202226$349k23%
FY202128$725k18%
FY202063$732k40%
FY201968$704k44%
FY201858$600k60%
FY201754$679kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.5MArts & Culture$908kReligion$675kFood & Nutrition$465kHuman Services$423kHealth$405kScience & Tech$320kPhilanthropy$278kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
NY
MA
WY
IA
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NJ
CT
CA
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MD
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$336,5007n/a
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island Inc$255,00040%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$220,00060%
Wolfensohn Family Foundation$210,000111%
Congregation Ahavas Israel$208,8006n/a
City Harvest Inc$165,00070%
Met Council Inc$160,000498%
American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra$156,50031%
Food Bank for New York City$145,00060%
Grand Teton Music Festival Inc$75,91841%
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All grantees of Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Theological Seminary of America$336,5007n/a
Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island Inc$255,00040%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$220,00060%
Wolfensohn Family Foundation$210,000111%
Congregation Ahavas Israel$208,8006n/a
City Harvest Inc$165,00070%
Met Council Inc$160,000498%
American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra$156,50031%
Food Bank for New York City$145,00060%
Grand Teton Music Festival Inc$75,91841%
Live Arts Inc$71,50056%
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc$62,50060%
The Women's Initiative$55,00061%
Bang on a Can$49,00051%
Anti-Defamation League$45,00030%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$45,00020%
The Trustees of Princeton University$41,80030%
Service Dogs of Virginia Inc$35,00052%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$35,00020%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$30,00020%
Meals on Wheels Inc$27,50051%
Acera School Inc$27,50030%
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc$25,30040%
American Friends of Bilderberg Inc$25,00012%
Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc$25,00010%
The Paramount Theater Foundation in F/K/A the Paramount Theater Inc$25,00044%
Prostate Cancer Foundation$25,00010%
Cultivate Charlottesville$22,50041%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$22,00030%
Mohonk Preserve Inc$21,60050%
Public Education Foundation of Charlottesville-Albemarle$20,000125%
Shelter for Help in Emergency Inc$20,00011%
The Advent School Corporation$20,00020%
Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc$20,00040%
Bct Brooklyn Children's Theatre Inc$20,00021%
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation$20,00010%
Hannah Senesh Community Day School$19,00010%
American Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc$18,89031%
Serenity Farm Equine Sanctuary$15,000115%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$15,00010%
Albemarle Housing Improvement Program Inc$15,00011%
International Rescue Committee INC$15,00020%
The Arc of the Piedmont Inc$15,00010%
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont$15,00011%
Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc$15,00011%
National Dance Institute$14,26020%
Florida Oceanographic Society Inc$13,50030%
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$12,00020%
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation$11,00030%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$11,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00010%
Albemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$10,00030%
Masbia$10,00011%
American Friends of the Open University of Israel Inc$10,00011%
Shed NYC Inc$10,00010%
The Berkeley Carroll School$10,00010%
Food Link Inc$10,00011%
Charlottesville Symphony Society$10,00011%
Museum of Modern Art$8,60030%
Humane Society of the Treasure Coast Inc$7,50020%
Virginia Organizing Inc$7,50010%
Menachem Education Foundation Inc$7,20021%
Aleph Society Inc$6,10040%
American Museum of Natural History$5,75030%
The Frick Collection$5,50020%
Colel Chabad$5,4003n/a
The Mentor Foundation USA$5,00020%
Citizens Budget Commission Inc$5,00020%
Lubavitch of Cambridge Inc$5,0001n/a
Molly's House Inc$5,00011%
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts$5,0001n/a
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance$5,00030%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$5,00010%
Wnet$4,50020%
Sailfish Point Foundation Inc$4,30011%
Stony Brook Foundation Inc$4,00020%
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association$4,00030%
Chabad Lubavitch of Wyoming Inc$3,9602n/a
International Women's Health Coalition$3,80030%
Luria Academy of Brooklyn$3,60010%
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation$3,50030%
The Jewish Museum$3,00030%
Moving Traditions$2,50010%
Teachers College Columbia University$2,50010%
Storycorps Inc$2,50010%
National Gallery of Art$2,50010%
The Rolling Dog Farm$2,50010%
International House$2,50010%
Sesame Workshop$2,50030%
The Elie Wiesel Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Leo Baeck Institute Inc$2,00010%
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Whitney Museum of American Art$2,00010%
American Jewish Committee$2,00020%
Manhattan School of Music$2,00010%
Temple Beth Shalom$1,8001n/a
Chabad House of Harvard Square Inc$1,8001n/a
Climate Museum$1,65010%
Young Concert Artists Inc$1,50020%
The New School$1,50010%
Juilliard School$1,50010%
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School Ltd (Formerly the Meorot Inst)$1,42010%
Camp Yavneh Inc$1,04010%
Special Olympics New York Inc$1,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,00010%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$1,00010%
American Friends of Reichman University Inc$1,00010%
World Council of Synagogues Inc$1,0001n/a
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$1,00010%
Isles Inc$1,00010%
The Nightingale-Bamford School$1,00010%
Studio in a School Association Inc$1,00010%
Gillen Brewer School$1,00010%
The Upper Room a Family Resource Center$1,0001n/a
New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc$1,00010%
Met Chorus Artists Inc$1,00010%
Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin$1,00010%
Council on Foreign Relations Inc$1,00010%
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network$1,00010%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$1,00010%
New York International Childrens Film Festival Inc$85010%
North Charles Community Eruv Inc$6501n/a
The Perlman Music Program Inc$50010%
Congregation or Zarua$5001n/a
New York Shakespeare Festival$50010%
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction$50010%
Wellesley College$25010%
Smithsonian Institution$20020%
Jackson Hole Jewish Community$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island Inc: $255,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBrooklyn Academy of Music Inc: $220,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWolfensohn Family Foundation: $210,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $165,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMet Council Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 98% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $156,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $145,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Teton Music Festival Inc: $75,918 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLive Arts Inc: $71,500 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetBlue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc: $62,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Initiative: $55,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBang on a Can: $49,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $41,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetService Dogs of Virginia Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $27,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAcera School Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc: $25,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of Bilderberg Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Paramount Theater Foundation in F/K/A the Paramount Theater Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCultivate Charlottesville: $22,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMohonk Preserve Inc: $21,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Education Foundation of Charlottesville-Albemarle: $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetShelter for Help in Emergency Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Advent School Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLoaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBct Brooklyn Children's Theatre Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetInstitute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHannah Senesh Community Day School: $19,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Soroka Medical Center Inc: $18,890 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSerenity Farm Equine Sanctuary: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbemarle Housing Improvement Program Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of the Piedmont Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBotanical Garden of the Piedmont: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNational Dance Institute: $14,260 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida Oceanographic Society Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 116.

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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.

Wolfensohn Family FoundationNY59.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wolfensohn Family Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Caplin Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Perry Foundation Inc · The Oak Hill Fund · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Sentara Health

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 Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc

How much does Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc give?
Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $709,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 68 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (14%), Religion (10%).
Who are Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Theological Seminary of America ($337k), Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island Inc ($255k), Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc ($220k).
Does Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc 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 Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wolfensohn Family Foundation, Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc based?
Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc 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 180 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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