New York · Private foundation
Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $966k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $43k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $39k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $202k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $76k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $89k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groton School | $155,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Global Coral Reef Alliance Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 42% |
| St Luke's School | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tusk USA Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Two East Sixty-Second Street Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Foundation for the Paris School of Economics Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Trustees of the New York Society Library | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carter Burden Network Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groton School | $155,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Global Coral Reef Alliance Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 42% |
| St Luke's School | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tusk USA Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Two East Sixty-Second Street Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Foundation for the Paris School of Economics Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Trustees of the New York Society Library | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carter Burden Network Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Thirty Six East Sixty Second Street Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Yorkers for Children Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piping Rock Scholarship Fund Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Presbyterian Church Nursey School | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Rockefeller University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The North Shore Land Alliance Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation
- How much does Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation give?
- Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $43,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Environment (23%), Science & Tech (16%).
- Who are Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Groton School ($155k), Global Coral Reef Alliance Inc ($140k), St Luke's School ($60k).
- Does Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henry & Wendy Breck 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 Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation based?
- Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation is based in NY.
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