· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $141k
- $250k+2 grants · $640k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $340,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $300,000 |
| STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM | $90,640 |
| STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM | $50,000 |
| COURTAULD INSTITUTE | $37,500 |
| THE JEWISH BOARD | $35,000 |
| CITY PARKS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $25,950 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $25,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET | $12,500 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NYC INC | $9,500 |
| STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM | $8,600 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $5,525 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $379k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM3× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC2× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +34%
- CPCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $80k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGone grant, 2024 · $67k
- NMNew Museumone grant, 2017 · $32k
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYLVIA CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lise and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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