New York · Private foundation
Sue & Edgar Wachenheim 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.
- $28M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $593M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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 | 29 | $28M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $32M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $21M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $21M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $24M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $19M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Modern Art | $55,060,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $21,000,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Wnet | $18,090,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Skidmore College | $9,050,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Williams College | $8,075,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Oceana Inc | $4,575,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Northwell Health Foundation | $3,500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Port Chester Carver Center Inc | $2,500,000 | 5 | 17% |
| The Jay Heritage Center | $2,500,000 | 2 | 62% |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 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: Chess Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation
- How much does Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation give?
- Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $28,284,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), International (14%), Education (14%).
- Who are Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Museum of Modern Art ($55M), Council on Foreign Relations Inc ($21M), Wnet ($18M).
- Does Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sue & Edgar Wachenheim 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 Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chess Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation based?
- Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation is based in NY.
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