Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Judith & David Wachs Family 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.
- $299k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $238k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $231k | 77% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $109k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $302k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $221k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School | $467,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Lubavitch House at Penn Inc | $44,800 | 4 | 12% |
| Foundation for Cognitive Therapy and Research | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the Main Line Inc | $24,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Momentum Unlimited Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $19,622 | 1 | 0% |
| Indian Valley Veterans Fund | $16,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Scholars for Peace in the Middle East | $11,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Hebron Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Katz Family Charitable Trust · The Specter Foundation · Seed the Dream Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation
- How much does Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation give?
- Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $238,051, out of $299,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Religion (4%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School ($467k), Lubavitch House at Penn Inc ($45k), Foundation for Cognitive Therapy and Research ($40k).
- Does Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Judith & David Wachs Family 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 Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Katz Family Charitable Trust, The Specter Foundation, Seed the Dream Foundation.
- Where is Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation based?
- Judith & David Wachs Family Foundation is based in PA.
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