· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $523k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $150,000 |
| CONGREGATION AHAVAS ISRAEL | $40,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY | $35,000 |
| THE MET COUNCIL | $35,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $35,000 |
| CONGREGATION BAITH ISRAEL ANSHEI EMES | $25,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION AHAVAS ISRAEL | $20,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE | $20,000 |
| SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY | $20,000 |
| HANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLAND INC4× · 2017–2022 · $255k · revenue +199%
CITY HARVEST INC7× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +75%
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY6× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- WFWOLFENSOHN FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $210k · revenue -34%
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEASone grant, 2020 · $50k
- CUCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
How this is measured
120 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. 120 of the 180 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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