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The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz 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.

$242k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
56
Grants FY2025
66
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,750
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 66
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$7.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthInternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving52$192k33%
FY202466$180k18%
FY202352$147k25%
FY202256$183k38%
FY202143$125k47%
FY202035$145kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$251kPhilanthropy$164kArts & Culture$144kHuman Services$94kEducation$56kCommunity Improvement$29kInternational$27kReligion$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
OK
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 77 grantees
All grantees of The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northwell Health Foundation$131,35060%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$105,48860%
Nassau County Museum of Art$91,00061%
Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center$69,53660%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$45,00040%
Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc$35,00040%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$33,00060%
Old Westbury Gardens Inc$21,75060%
Parkinson Research Foundation Inc$15,75040%
Green Vale School$14,00060%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$12,80030%
Morselife Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Lower East Side Printshop Inc$10,00021%
Palm Beach Opera Inc$10,00010%
Friends of Yad Sarah Inc$8,67040%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$8,00040%
Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach Inc$7,7853n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$7,50060%
Compassion & Choices$6,86050%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$6,80050%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$5,08040%
Moriches Rotary Health Camp Inc$5,00050%
The Actors' Fund of America$5,00040%
Brighter Children Inc$5,00011%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$5,00040%
Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty$5,00030%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$5,00050%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$4,78040%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$4,50040%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$4,45050%
The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc$4,00040%
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc$3,70040%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$2,63040%
American Society for Yad Vashem Inc$2,52020%
The Chemotherapy Foundation Inc$2,50023%
Renewal of Life Inc$2,50010%
Hospice Care Network$2,25030%
Temple Beth El of Great Neck$2,0502n/a
Island Harvest Ltd$2,00030%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$2,00020%
Met Council Inc$2,0001n/a
Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc$1,75020%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$1,75030%
Juilliard School$1,50020%
Seva Foundation$1,50010%
Center for Science Teaching and Learning Inc$1,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,00010%
Mercy Ships International$1,00010%
Birthright Israel Foundation$85040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$76610%
Friends of Karen Inc$60010%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$60020%
Capital Research Center$50010%
Seeds of Peace Inc$50010%
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University$50010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$50050%
Autism Speaks Inc$45020%
Helen Keller International$43020%
World Jewish Congress (American Section) Inc$40020%
Smile Train Inc$40010%
American Institute for Cancer Research$35020%
Center for Science in the Public Interest$25010%
The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc$25010%
AARP Foundation$2501n/a
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences$24020%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$20520%
Operation Homefront Inc$20010%
Lupus Foundation of America Inc$20010%
Museum of Modern Art$20010%
Dorot Inc$20020%
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc$15010%
The American Film Institute$12510%
Blood Cancer United Inc$10010%
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated$10010%
Jbi International Inc$10010%
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc$10010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $131,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $105,488 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art: $91,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSid Jacobson Jewish Community Center: $69,536 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $33,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc: $21,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetParkinson Research Foundation Inc: $15,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGreen Vale School: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $12,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMorselife Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLower East Side Printshop Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPalm Beach Opera Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Yad Sarah Inc: $8,670 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $6,860 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $5,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMoriches Rotary Health Camp Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrighter Children Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $4,780 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $4,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brooklyn College Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Hospital Foundation Inc: $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $2,630 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $2,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chemotherapy Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetRenewal of Life Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Care Network: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Harvest Ltd: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Parkinson Disease Assoc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJuilliard School: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeva Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Science Teaching and Learning Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $766 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Karen Inc: $600 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 73.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc give?
The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc reported 56 grants totaling $241,513 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 66 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Philanthropy (19%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Northwell Health Foundation ($131k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($105k), Nassau County Museum of Art ($91k).
Does The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc based?
The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz 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 121 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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