Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Peggy & Ellis Wachs 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.
- $114k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 58
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 46 | $104k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $83k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $74k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $79k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $75k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $82k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Balletx | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Curtis Institute of Music | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $32,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Orchestra Association | $31,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Parkinson Council | $26,900 | 5 | 2% |
| 1616 Latimer Fund | $20,160 | 3 | 2% |
| Project Home | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $13,650 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($112k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peggy & Ellis Wachs 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: The William Penn Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Salem D Shuchman & Barbara L Klock Foundation C/O Bessemer Trust Company Na · The University of the Arts · John S and James L Knight Foundation
How this is measured
About Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation
- How much does Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation give?
- Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $114,018 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 58 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Health (19%), Education (14%).
- Who are Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Philadelphia Museum of Art ($45k), Balletx ($40k), Curtis Institute of Music ($35k).
- Does Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peggy & Ellis Wachs 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 Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation based?
- Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation is based in PA.
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