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Ralph M Wynn Foundation at a glance

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Ralph M Wynn Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$934kEducation$96k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $179k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$62,500
NEW YORK CITY OPERA$25,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$21,250
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$20,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS$15,000
HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000
BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM FKA ALBRIGHT-KNOX$15,000
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$12,500
WSHU PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$10,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$6,250
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $13k → 6%BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM FKA ALBRIGHT-KNOX: $15k → 13%HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 16%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS: $15k → 17%WSHU PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 9%NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $13k → 6%BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM FKA ALBRIGHT-KNOX: $15k → 13%HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 16%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS: $15k → 17%WSHU PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 9%NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 6%HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 16%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS: $15k → 17%WSHU PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 9%HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART: $13k → 16%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS: $13k → 17%WSHU PUBLIC RADIO: $8k → 9%HERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART: $13k → 16%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $63k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $63k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $63k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $60k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 17%NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $25k → 17%NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $25k → 17%NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $25k → 17%NEW YORK CITY OPERA: $24k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10k → 17%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $7k → 17%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $13k → 17%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $11k → 17%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $6k → 17%THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $20k → 17%THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $20k → 17%THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $20k → 17%THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $20k → 17%THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 17%THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 17%THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 17%THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 17%AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $13k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Ralph M Wynn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.

Ralph M Wynn Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 15 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -56% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$1.0M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-56%

Still filing today

87%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $258k · revenue +3%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY OPERA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $103k · revenue +30%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +22%

Funded once

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    AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -56%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
5
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
7
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Collections
Arts & Culture
10
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
11
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
12
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Museum; the most unlike its peers is Sacred Heart University Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $257,500 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association IncNEW YORK CITY OPERA: $103,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY OPERASMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $90,250 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $80,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTAmerican Museum of Natural History: $80,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryNew York Historical Society: $58,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical SocietyMuseum of Modern Art: $46,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $36,750 · Arts & CultureNassau County Museum of Art: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $28,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $13,000 · Arts & CultureHERBERT F JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART: $71,000 · OtherHERBERT F J…BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM FKA ALBRIGHT-KNOX: $30,000 · OtherBUFFALO AKG…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $58,000 · EducationThe New Yo…SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $38,000 · EducationSACRED HEA…MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $5,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$828,000Other$101,000Education$96,000Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $257,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OPERA: $103,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $90,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $58,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $58,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $46,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $36,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ralph M Wynn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph M Wynn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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