· Private foundation
Susan S and Kenneth L Wallach 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $745k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $1,250,000 |
| COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC | $1,000,000 |
| THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER | $600,000 |
| THE 92ND STREET Y | $200,000 |
| WNET | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $145,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $75,000 |
| MASTERVOICES | $75,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL INC | $50,000 |
| PACE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| SPENCE SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $30,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| ST HILDA'S AND ST HUGH'S SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +55%
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History7× · 2019–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +13%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- RURUTGERS UNIVERSITY RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $800k
- BHBLUE HILL TROUPE LTDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +39%
- CECARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -34%
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
81 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. 81 of the 98 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 LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MASTERVOICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION TRUST FOR MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL TROUPE LTD ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trevor Day School ↗
- Who funds THE THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for a Civil Society LTD ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
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 New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ford Foundation · AC Israel Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · LNS&ARS Foundation · One Hundred Ways Foundation · The Fledgling Fund · The Speyer Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Susan S and Kenneth L Wallach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan S and Kenneth L Wallach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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