· Private foundation
Svetlana and Herbert M Wachtell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Communal Fund | $90,000 |
| Central Park Conservancy | $15,000 |
| Carnegie Hall Society | $15,000 |
| Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival | $15,000 |
| The New Press | $13,000 |
| Southampton Hospital Foundation | $10,000 |
| New York Philharmonic | $10,000 |
| American Friends of the Salzburg Easter Festival | $9,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $7,964 |
| American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Fdn) | $7,000 |
| Thirteen WNET | $6,000 |
| Young Concert Artists | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Manhattan Theatre Club | $5,000 |
| Mastervoices Inc | $3,090 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +167%
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +5%
- BCBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- MSMount Sinai Health System (DEPT of DermatoloGY)one grant, 2020 · $10k
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%
- UAUrban Arts Partnershipone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
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…
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.
To commission and perform new music
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds MASTERVOICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Vienna Philharmonic Society ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds FRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR SONG FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE LYRIC CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The James S Marcus Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Svetlana and Herbert M Wachtell Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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