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The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust

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.

$236k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
82%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 82% of the organizations The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$183k42%
FY202411$100k82%
FY20232$43kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$137kHealth$115kArts & Culture$93kYouth Development$52kHuman Services$20kReligion$9kCivil Rights$5kAnimals$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The New York Classical Players Inc$82,500318%
Apex for Youth Inc$51,50020%
Jesuit Refugee Service USA$14,8502n/a
Fordham University$12,00020%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$10,00010%
Renaissance Church Inc$9,0002n/a
The Chapin School Ltd$7,50020%
The Asian American Foundation$5,0001n/a
New York Women's Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Achievement First Inc$5,00010%
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All grantees of The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The New York Classical Players Inc$82,500318%
Apex for Youth Inc$51,50020%
Jesuit Refugee Service USA$14,8502n/a
Fordham University$12,00020%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$10,00010%
Renaissance Church Inc$9,0002n/a
The Chapin School Ltd$7,50020%
The Asian American Foundation$5,0001n/a
New York Women's Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Achievement First Inc$5,00010%
Reading Partners$3,00020%
Blanton-Peale Institute$2,00020%
The Animal Medical Center$1,00020%
Reach Out and Read Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe New York Classical Players Inc: $82,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetApex for Youth Inc: $51,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFordham University: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFacing History & Ourselves Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAchievement First Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Partners: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlanton-Peale Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Animal Medical Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReach Out and Read Inc: $1,000 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 10.

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About The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust

How much does The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust give?
The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust reported 21 grants totaling $235,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (27%), Arts & Culture (21%).
Who are The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: The New York Classical Players Inc ($83k), Apex for Youth Inc ($52k), Jesuit Refugee Service USA ($15k).
Does The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust 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.
Where is The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust based?
The Charlene y Wang Charitable Trust 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 21 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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