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Gail Wasserman Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$365k
Granted FY2022
12
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$148k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202022.

Arts & Culture$509kHuman Services$115kEducation$37kHealth$20kYouth Development$5kCommunity Improvement$4kEnvironment$3kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $262k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART$147,976
FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS$113,750
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART$34,625
Individual grant recipient$22,500
MIAMI CITY BALLET$20,000
BOCA RATON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
THE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL$10,000
KIDS DREAMS INC$2,500
IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY$2,050
EDA & CLIFF VINER COMMUNITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$1,000
RICHARDSON CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT$1,000
NORTON MUSUEM OF ART$80
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $114k → 11%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$685k · 9 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$685k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+100%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BR
    BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2020–2022 · $149k · revenue +21%
  • MC
    MIAMI CITY BALLET INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $116k · revenue +11%
  • FF
    FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $115k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • GW
    GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +100%
  • SO
    SINGERS OF THE PALM BEACHES
    one grant, 2021 · $1k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Florida Children's Museum Inc

Curating the world for all children to explore

Arts & Culture
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc

The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.

Education
4
Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc

The adrienne arsht center is a leader in presenting innovative programming that mirrors south florida's diversity, as well as a catalyst for billions of dollars in new development in the downtown area. the center presents nearly 400 events…

Arts & Culture
5
Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc

To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.

Arts & Culture
6
Central Florida Ballet Inc

Central florida ballet's mission is to entertain, educate, and inspire through the universal art form of dance. with a diverse repertoire of dance productions and programs from classical to contemporary and beyond, each attendee is to be…

Arts & Culture
7
Florida Ballet At Jacksonville Inc

The mission of the florida ballet is to enrich and inspire the cultural landscape of our community through the education and art of classical ballet.

8
Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum

Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…

Arts & Culture
9
Palm Beach Cultural Innovation Center

Palm beach cultural innovation center strives to inspire audiences of all ages, deepen human connection through the arts, and sustain economic growth as palm beach's world-class performing arts and events venue.

Arts & Culture
10
Centre for the Arts At Mizner Park Inc

To expand cultural resources in south palm beach county by creating cooperative programming opportunities in music, dance, theater, film, and the fine arts.

Arts & Culture
11
The Children's Museum Inc

Our mission is to broaden children's awareness of the world around them and teach them how to problem solve through creative and scientific exploration.

12
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eda and Cliff Viner Community Scholars Foundation 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART — $240,675 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTTHE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $36,000 · OtherTHE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOCA RATON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherBOCA RATON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+4 more — $6,935 · OtherBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART — $149,441 · Arts & CultureBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ARTMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $115,900 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC+2 more — $2,080 · Arts & CultureFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $115,250 · Human ServicesFLORENCE FULLER CH…IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $4,150 · PhilanthropyKids Dreams Inc — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentEDA AND CLIFF VINER COMMUNITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Education
Other$326,110Arts & Culture$267,421Human Services$115,250Philanthropy$4,150Youth Development$2,500Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART — $149,441 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $115,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $115,250 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WILLOWS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $4,150 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $2,935 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Dreams Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RICHARDSON CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDA AND CLIFF VINER COMMUNITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gail Wasserman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gail Wasserman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gail Wasserman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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