New York · Private foundation
The Bwf 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.
- $213k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,172
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Bwf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $188k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $81k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $97k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $61k | 84% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $37k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Calhoun School Inc | $86,297 | 3 | 0% |
| The Studio School | $53,621 | 2 | 1% |
| The Broadway League Inc | $45,175 | 3 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Theatre for a New Audience Inc | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Roundabout Theatre Company Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Poderistas Community Fund | $10,942 | 1 | n/a |
| Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc | $10,032 | 1 | n/a |
| Manhattan Class Company Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($129k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bwf Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Richenthal Foundation · Daryl & Steven Roth Foundation · Axe-Houghton Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008
How this is measured
About The Bwf Foundation
- How much does The Bwf Foundation give?
- The Bwf Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $212,697 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Bwf Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Education (29%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are The Bwf Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Calhoun School Inc ($86k), The Studio School ($54k), The Broadway League Inc ($45k).
- Does The Bwf Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bwf Foundation 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bwf Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The Bwf Foundation based?
- The Bwf Foundation is based in NY.
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