· Private foundation
The Bert & Sandra Wasserman Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $306k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $230,000 |
| PROJECT ALS INC | $76,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NY | $25,000 |
| KINDNESSORG | $25,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE | $17,500 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| DWIGHT ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL | $8,650 |
| CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM | $5,400 |
| DOROT | $1,018 |
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 (FY18–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +39%
- UOUniversity of Michigan2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue +88% · 47% of their budget
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $197k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- TTHIRTEENone grant, 2021 · $10k
- PKProject Keshergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +181%
- WCWEILL CORNELL MEDICINEone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
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Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
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To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
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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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 33 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 THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds KINDNESSORG INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds Project Kesher ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bert & Sandra Wasserman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bert & Sandra Wasserman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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