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The Carol & Arnold Wolowitz 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.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$251kPhilanthropy$164kArts & Culture$144kHuman Services$94kEducation$56kCommunity Improvement$29kInternational$27kReligion$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k62 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$27,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$27,000
SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$20,660
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY$20,000
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
NORTON FOUNDATION$10,000
KRAVIS CENTER$10,000
UJA - FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$6,000
THE LONG ISLAND MUSEUM$5,000
LOWER EAST SIDE PRINT SHOP$5,000
UCP OF LONG ISLAND$5,000
THE GREEN VALE SCHOOL$4,000
FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH$3,250
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$3,100
HOW FOUNDATION$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $500 → 13%RENEWAL OF LIFE: $3k → 20%ISLAND HARVEST: $1k → 7%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 7%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $400 → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 7%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $200 → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $9k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $6k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $6k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $6k → 7%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $3k → 7%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $1k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $750 → 6%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $2k → 17%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $21k → 6%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $2k → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $1k → 17%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 6%DOROT: $100 → 17%DOROT: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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DC
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FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$750k · 70 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
19

Total granted

$750k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+54%

Still filing today

66%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
    5× · 2020–2024 · $111k · revenue +3%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +46%
  • NC
    Nassau County Museum of Art
    5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • BC
    BRIGHTER CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +54%
  • PR
    PARKINSONS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • RO
    RENEWAL OF LIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +97%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
2
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
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
9
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
10
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,691

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTON FOUNDATION — $37,500 · OtherNORTON FOUNDATIONGURWIN JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $36,000 · OtherGURWIN JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDAT…UCP OF LONG ISLAND — $15,000 · OtherUCP OF LONG ISLANDTEMPLE SINAI — $13,897 · OtherTEMPLE SINAIOld Westbury Gardens Inc — $13,750 · OtherOld Westbury Gardens IncJAFCO — $13,720 · OtherJAFCOUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL — $10,000 · OtherTHE LONG ISLAND MUSEUM — $10,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN HOSPITAL — $8,260 · Other+39 more — $73,280 · Other+39 moreNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $111,350 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUND…Parkinson Research Foundation Inc — $15,750 · HealthParkinson Research Fou…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,600 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION…FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $6,920 · Health+12 more — $24,166 · Health+12 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $96,238 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $63,175 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF …+3 more — $2,455 · PhilanthropyNassau County Museum of Art — $71,000 · Arts & CultureNassau County …RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAV…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $6,000 · Arts & CultureThe United Sta…+6 more — $6,315 · Arts & Culture+6 moreSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $48,352 · Human ServicesSID JACOBSON…SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY …METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $5,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN…+5 more — $7,550 · Human Services+5 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $35,000 · InternationalBRIGHTER CHILDREN INC — $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $4,780 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $4,000 · International+6 more — $3,430 · InternationalGREEN VALE SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $3,500 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $1,500 · EducationCENTER FOR SCIENCE TEACHING AND LEARNING INC — $1,000 · Education+2 more — $600 · Education
Other$241,407Health$167,786Philanthropy$161,868Arts & Culture$108,315Human Services$90,902International$52,210Education$20,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $111,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $96,238 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art — $71,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $63,175 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $48,352 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson Research Foundation Inc — $15,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOld Westbury Gardens Inc — $13,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN VALE SCHOOL — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $6,920 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMORICHES ROTARY HEALTH CAMP INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $4,780 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $4,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC — $3,080 over 3y, 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 budgetRENEWAL OF LIFE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 2y, 2.9% 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 budgetSEVA FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE TEACHING AND LEARNING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $766 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Carol & Arnold Wolowitz Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Carol & Arnold Wolowitz Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Carol & Arnold Wolowitz Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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