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The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc

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.

$598k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving9$598k44%
FY20247$80k14%
FY20235$133k20%
FY20226$140k83%
FY20212$15k100%
FY20205$19kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$500kEducation$215kHuman Services$113kArts & Culture$111kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kPhilanthropy$7kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bowdoin College$207,50040%
Howard Stirk Holdings Journalism Foundation Inc$60,0002n/a
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$60,00040%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh$50,00050%
Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc$10,50040%
Olalashe Foundation Inc$7,40021%
Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc$5,00010%
The Lord's Place Inc$5,00010%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$5,00020%
Unreported Story Society$5,0001n/a
Share Our Strength$3,77510%
William Penn Charter School Inc$2,00010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBowdoin College: $207,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOlalashe Foundation Inc: $7,400 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPalm Beach Dramaworks Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lord's Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Strength: $3,775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Penn Charter School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 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 10.

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About The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc give?
The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $597,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Education (22%), Human Services (11%).
Who are The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bowdoin College ($208k), Howard Stirk Holdings Journalism Foundation Inc ($60k), Harlem Children's Zone Inc ($60k).
Does The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc 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.
Where is The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc based?
The Barry and Oblio Wish Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 18 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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