New York · Private foundation
Lise and Jeffrey Wilks 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $340,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 | 19 | $1.0M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $461k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.1M | 79% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $569k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $815k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $946k | 61% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $449k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $1,003,580 | 3 | 1% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Synagogue | $124,235 | 3 | n/a |
| Collegiate School Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| City Parks Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc | $44,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum at Eldridge Street | $37,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | $1,003,580 | 3 | 1% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Synagogue | $124,235 | 3 | n/a |
| Collegiate School Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| City Parks Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc | $44,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum at Eldridge Street | $37,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Jewish Museum | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gift of Life Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 31% |
| The Sylvia Center | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Play for Pink Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bronx Letters Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Geosentinel Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $1,200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation
- How much does Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation give?
- Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,017,465 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (18%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Studio Museum in Harlem ($1.0M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($125k), Central Synagogue ($124k).
- Does Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lise and Jeffrey Wilks 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 Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation based?
- Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation is based in NY.
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