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Ruth Winkelman Wender 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.

$405k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
106
Grants FY2024
102
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$23,000
Organizations funded a year
83 to 104
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
20
Total assets, FY2024
$6.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving104$401k18%
FY2023102$396k18%
FY202297$345k18%
FY2021104$411k41%
FY202083$350kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$420kCivil Rights$285kReligion$233kEducation$223kInternational$138kArts & Culture$112kEnvironment$111kHuman Services$83kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
IL
NY
MA
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SD
IN
PA
NJ
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CO
MO
VA
MD
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HI
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FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 124 grantees
All grantees of Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fordham University$111,50040%
Anti-Defamation League Foundation$100,00050%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$90,00050%
White Plains Hospital Medical Center$73,80050%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$70,00030%
Hebrew Institute of White Plains$60,7855n/a
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$50,00040%
Birthright Israel Foundation$41,00050%
Westchester Jewish Council Inc$31,50052%
Partnership With Native Americans$29,50040%
Long Island Cares Inc$27,50050%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$27,50050%
American Cancer Society Inc$24,00050%
Stony Brook Foundation Inc$19,00050%
Native American Rights Fund Inc$18,00040%
Core Community Organized Relief Effort$15,00020%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$15,00020%
Honestreportingcom Inc$13,00030%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$13,00050%
North Shore University Hospital$12,50050%
United Negro College Fund Inc$12,30040%
Share Our Strength$12,00020%
Wnet$11,60030%
New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre$11,30020%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$11,00040%
Chabad at the Medical Centers$10,80023%
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc$10,00040%
Her Justice Inc$10,00020%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$10,00010%
The Malala Fund$10,00020%
American Heart Association Inc$10,00050%
Hilarity for Charity Inc$10,00050%
Arthritis Foundation Inc$10,00050%
Coalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat$10,00050%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$9,50050%
Lungevity Foundation Inc$9,50040%
The Leffell School$9,4205n/a
Lubavitch Youth Organization$9,3005n/a
Oceana Inc$9,25030%
Chabad of the Hospitals Inc$9,0001n/a
Board of Jewish Education Inc$8,80040%
United States Association for UNHCR$8,70030%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$8,00020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$7,50020%
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc$7,30050%
New York Public Radio$7,10020%
Fresh Air Fund$6,50050%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$6,50050%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$6,50020%
Kivunim$6,10020%
Enchanted Peach Children's Foundation$6,00040%
Finca International Inc$5,98540%
Museum of Modern Art$5,70040%
Long Island Golden Retriever Rescue Inc$5,50052%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$5,00050%
New Museum of Contemporary Art$5,00050%
American Indian College Fund$5,00010%
American Jewish Committee$5,00020%
Rising Artist Foundation Inc$5,00019%
Maui Food Bank Inc$5,00020%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Special Olympics New York Inc$5,00050%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$5,00010%
Givedirectly Inc$4,50040%
Chabad Jewish Student Center DC$4,0004n/a
New York-Presbyterian Foundation Inc$4,0001n/a
The George Washington University$4,00040%
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital$4,00010%
Hebron Fund Inc$3,48030%
The Frick Collection$3,15020%
Seva Foundation$3,15030%
Global Fund for Women Inc$3,00010%
North Shore Womens Club Inc$3,0002n/a
Bank Street College of Education$3,00020%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc$2,50010%
Greenpeace Inc$2,50010%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$2,50010%
Garden of Dreams Foundation$2,50010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$2,50010%
New York Botanical Garden$2,20040%
Whitney Museum of American Art$2,02530%
Save the Music Foundation$2,00010%
Jazz Foundation of America Inc$2,00010%
SS United States Conservancy$2,00020%
United States Fund for Unicef$2,00020%
The Good People Fund Inc$2,00020%
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation$2,00010%
Musicares Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Technoserve Inc$2,00040%
Ocean Conservancy$2,00020%
Compassion & Choices$2,00020%
Saint Francis Foundation$2,00010%
Humane World for Animals Inc$2,00040%
Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc$1,8001n/a
Polaris Project$1,50010%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$1,50010%
Rails to Trails Conservancy$1,50020%
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences$1,25050%
The Friends of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Inc$1,12050%
Artswestchester Inc$1,10050%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$1,05020%
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$1,02520%
Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence$1,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$1,00010%
Stardust Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Easter Seals Inc$1,00010%
Friends of the Earth$1,00010%
The Audre Lorde Project Inc$1,00010%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$1,00010%
Mara Elephant Project USA Inc$1,00020%
The American Film Institute$1,00040%
National Geographic Society$1,00010%
Project Orbis International Inc$1,00010%
Ithaca College$1,00010%
The National World War II Museum Inc$1,00010%
National Harm Reduction Coalition$75010%
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation$55540%
Hillels of Westchester Inc$50010%
Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy$5001n/a
Sealaska Heritage Institute$50010%
Israel Emergency Alliance$25010%
Wildlife Conservation Society$14510%
New York Historical Society$13510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($605k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFordham University: $111,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League Foundation: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $73,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Jewish Council Inc: $31,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $29,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStony Brook Foundation Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Rights Fund Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCore Community Organized Relief Effort: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHonestreportingcom Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore University Hospital: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $12,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWnet: $11,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre: $11,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChabad at the Medical Centers: $10,800 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAlvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHer Justice Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Malala Fund: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHilarity for Charity Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLungevity Foundation Inc: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOceana Inc: $9,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoard of Jewish Education Inc: $8,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $8,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc: $7,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $7,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKivunim: $6,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEnchanted Peach Children's Foundation: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFinca International Inc: $5,985 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 115.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Alan and Giselle Weissman Family Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Fjc · Verizon Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation

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.

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About Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation

How much does Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation give?
Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation reported 106 grants totaling $405,229 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 83 and 104 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Civil Rights (15%), Religion (12%).
Who are Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Fordham University ($112k), Anti-Defamation League Foundation ($100k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($90k).
Does Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ruth Winkelman Wender 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 Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Alan and Giselle Weissman Family Foundation Inc, American Express Foundation.
Where is Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation based?
Ruth Winkelman Wender Foundation is based in DE.

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 183 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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