· Private foundation
George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $194k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $125,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| SOME INC | $20,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOODBANK | $20,000 |
| NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - (GENERAL) | $20,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $20,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION - (SECURITY BUDGET) | $15,000 |
| LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA | $15,000 |
| ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION - (SECURITY BUDGET) | $15,000 |
| GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MAKOM | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL (ONCOLOGY) | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
84 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BJBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON6× · 2019–2025 · $315k · revenue +6%
- SISOME INC7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +38%
- MTMARTHA'S TABLE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $115k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- WHWASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION - (ISRAEL HESED FUND)one grant, 2023 · $22k
- MHMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +23%
- BBBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +121%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New America Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
68 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 111 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area ↗
- Who funds PEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIENER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES ENDOWMENT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Posner-Wallace Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · England Family Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family 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 George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County Inc — 24% of income from government
- Moco Kidsco Inc — 15% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.