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.

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.

The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc

The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% 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

02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k47 grants · $80k
$10k–50k8 grants · $111k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$1,750

Median grant

States reached

$7.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY	$50,000
SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER	$21,184
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART	$20,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION	$20,000
PALM BEACH OPERA	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVSERSITY	$10,000
KRAVIS CENTER	$10,000
NORTON FOUNDATION	$10,000
MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC	$10,000
OLD WESTBURY GARDENS	$8,000
UJA - FEDERATION OF NEW YORK	$6,000
UCP OF LONG ISLAND	$5,000
THE LONG ISLAND MUSEUM	$5,000
LOWER EAST SIDE PRINT SHOP	$5,000
THE GREEN VALE SCHOOL	$4,000

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$916k · 73 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

73 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$916k

$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+40%

Still filing today

64%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

NH
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $131k · revenue +3%
UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +46%
NC
Nassau County Museum of Art
6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +76%

Funded once

BC
BRIGHTER CHILDREN INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +54%
PR
PARKINSONS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $3k
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM
one grant, 2024 · $3k

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.

New York University

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.

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Met Council Inc. 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

78 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. 78 of the 121 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/78

Grantees still filing

53/78

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$297,286Philanthropy$221,118Health$197,436Arts & Culture$152,515Human Services$126,336International$64,310Education$25,600

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.

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 →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carol and Arnold Wolowitz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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