New York · Private foundation
The Lynne Waxman 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.
- $428k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Lynne Waxman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $428k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $431k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $441k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $443k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $393k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $361k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $214k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $198k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $425,000 | 9 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $366,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd | $310,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Skin Cancer Foundation Inc | $195,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation | $175,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Henry Street Settlement | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $143,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Old Merchants House of New York Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $107,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $425,000 | 9 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $366,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd | $310,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Skin Cancer Foundation Inc | $195,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation | $175,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Henry Street Settlement | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $143,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Old Merchants House of New York Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $107,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Women's Prison Association and Home | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Good Old Lower East Side Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Communities Confronting Substance Use & Addiction Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Art Omi Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Place in Ny Inc | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Mark's Historic Landmark Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yellowhammer Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($696k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lynne Waxman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lynne Waxman Foundation
- How much does The Lynne Waxman Foundation give?
- The Lynne Waxman Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $428,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lynne Waxman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Health (13%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are The Lynne Waxman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the High Line Inc ($425k), City Harvest Inc ($366k), Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd ($310k).
- Does The Lynne Waxman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lynne Waxman 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 Lynne Waxman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Lynne Waxman Foundation based?
- The Lynne Waxman Foundation is based in NY.
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