New York · Private foundation
Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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 | 21 | $1.5M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $958k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $670k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $245k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $321k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $397k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $366k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $771k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Festivals Foundation Inc | $1,691,500 | 8 | 4% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $799,055 | 6 | 0% |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $673,470 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Music Center of Boston Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 4% |
| New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation | $228,125 | 8 | 0% |
| The Jazz Gallery | $220,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Simmons University | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Apollo Theater Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Inc | $100,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($644k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 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: Kitchings Family Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Louis Armstrong Educational Foundat · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Adam R Rose Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc
- How much does Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc give?
- Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $1,460,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (90%), Education (4%), Youth Development (3%).
- Who are Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newport Festivals Foundation Inc ($1.7M), The Carnegie Hall Corporation ($799k), The Studio Museum in Harlem ($673k).
- Does Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joyce & George Wein 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 Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kitchings Family Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Louis Armstrong Educational Foundat.
- Where is Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc based?
- Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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