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Svetlana and Herbert M Wachtell Foundation at a glance

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Svetlana and Herbert M Wachtell 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.

$179k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$491kArts & Culture$488kCrime & Legal$145kRecreation & Sports$75kInternational$50kHealth$49kFood & Nutrition$20kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$25,000
CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY$20,258
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$20,000
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS$16,000
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE (BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION)$10,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$5,000
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$5,000
LYRIC CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL (AFSEF)$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WNYC WQXR NJPR NYPR$5,000
CITY MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Association to Benefit Children: $1k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$976k · 38 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
14

Total granted

$976k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+22%

Still filing today

66%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthRecreation & SportsInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TP
    THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +5%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +167%
  • BC
    BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • MS
    Mount Sinai Health System (DEPT of DermatoloGY)
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +165%
  • UA
    Urban Arts Partnership
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.

1
San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
New York Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
New York City Opera

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…

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The New York New Music Ensemble Inc

To commission and perform new music

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
The New York Festival of Song Inc

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…

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12
Grant Park Orchestral Association

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Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $513,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNew York University School of Law: $138,334 · OtherNew York University School of La…The Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $95,258 · OtherThe Carnegie Hall Society IncAMERICAN BALLET THEATRE (BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION): $43,500 · OtherAMERICAN BALLET THEATRE (BALLET …COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $25,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+23 more: $93,002 · Other+23 moreTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SO…THE NEW PRESS INC: $63,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW PRESS INCBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC: $42,000 · Arts & CultureBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC …YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $34,650 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INCNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $28,964 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $25,081 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL: $19,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $17,750 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $38,432 · Arts & Culture+10 moreCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthInternational Rescue Committee INC: $35,000 · InternationalCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$528,000Other$439,094Arts & Culture$384,377Recreation & Sports$75,000Health$52,500International$35,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $513,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW PRESS INC: $63,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC: $42,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $34,650 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $28,964 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $25,081 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL: $19,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $17,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC: $15,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC: $8,090 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $7,590 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAG HARBOR SONG FESTIVAL INC: $6,584 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Vienna Philharmonic Society: $6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC: $5,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Arts Partnership: $5,210 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LYRIC CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $258 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS 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 MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MASTERVOICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds SAG HARBOR SONG FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Vienna Philharmonic Society ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe James S Marcus Fo…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Svetlana and Herbert M Wachtell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Svetlana and Herbert M Wachtell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Svetlana and Herbert M Wachtell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 56 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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