How much does The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation give?

The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,080,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (30%), Employment (7%).

Who are The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Skidmore College ($1.5M), Blythedale Children's Hospital ($1.5M), Guidance Center of Westchester Inc ($525k).

Does The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Lance R Wachenheim 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 Lance R Wachenheim Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Glff Inc, Triple E Charitable Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation based?

The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation is based in NY.

The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation

The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lance R Wachenheim 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.

$1.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$2.7MEducation$2.0MEmployment$425kHuman Services$255kArts & Culture$253kFood & Nutrition$216kInternational$195kYouth Development$190kOther$0

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $32k
$10k–50k8 grants · $243k
$50k–250k5 grants · $555k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$26M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$250,000
SKIDMORE COLLEGE	$180,000
WORKSHOP FOR WARRIORS	$150,000
STEM ALLIANCE OF LARCHMONT-MAMARONECK	$95,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND	$80,000
OCEANA	$50,000
FRIENDS OF KAREN	$40,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES	$30,000
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$30,000
FRESH AIR FUND	$30,000
OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC	$30,000
FEEDING WESTCHESTER	$30,000
MV YOUTH	$28,000
MYSTIC SEAPORT	$25,000
LARCHMONT MANOR PARK SOCIETY	$5,000

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 (FY19–25, $540k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.5M · 28 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.5M

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+131%

Still filing today

86%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

SC
SKIDMORE COLLEGE
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +19%
BC
BLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +36%
GC
GUIDANCE CENTER OF WESTCHESTER INC
5× · 2019–2023 · $525k · revenue +11%

Funded once

DF
DANNY FUND INC
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -45%
TF
TOYS FOR TOTS INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $275 · revenue +131%
AF
ACES FOR ALZHEIMERS INC
one grant, 2019 · $200

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.

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

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

Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health

Wmc-New York Inc

Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…

Health

Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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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

Longneck Manor Conservation Foundation

To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes

Animals

Stony Brook Childrens Services 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 Orthopedic 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

The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc

To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Door Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sound Shore St Patrick's Day Parade 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 32 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)

26/26

Grantees still filing

20/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$1,834,500Education$1,575,000Other$1,331,447Youth Development$577,635Human Services$540,000Employment$425,000Arts & Culture$252,550

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.

Glff IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Glff Inc · Triple E Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Lance R Wachenheim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lance R Wachenheim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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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