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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MHealth$409kFood & Nutrition$366kEmployment$310kHuman Services$206kCivil Rights$150kReligion$142kEducation$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $238k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY HARVEST$60,000
HOT BREAD KITCHEN$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE$50,000
THE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION$30,000
NEW VICTORY THEATER$25,000
THE GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION$25,000
BARUCH COLLEGE$25,000
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT$25,000
CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION$25,000
CHAI LIFELINE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$18,000
MERCHANTS HOUSE MUSEUM$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $471k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $50k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $50k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $50k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $50k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $30k → 17%OUR PLACE NY: $4k → 17%OUR PLACE NY: $3k → 17%OUR PLACE NY: $3k → 17%OUR PLACE NY: $3k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $30k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $20k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $15k → 17%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $15k → 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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 26 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
3

Total granted

$3.0M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+78%

Still filing today

65%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CITY HARVEST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +75%
  • HB
    HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +61%
  • TS
    THE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +376%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARK'S HISTORIC LANDMARK FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -98%
  • YF
    Yellowhammer Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +78%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +80%

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.

1
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
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan

Jewish home lifecare (d/b/a the new jewish home, manhattan), is a not-for-profit organization committed to transforming eldercare for new yorkers so they can live meaningful lives in the place they call home.

Health
7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

9
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
10
Lower East Side Conservancy Ltd

The les jewish conservancys mission is to celebrate, preserve, and share the jewish heritage of nyc neighborhoods, starting with the iconic lower east side, the cradle of american jewish civilization.

Religion
11
Nyu Langone Health System

The board adopted mission statement is: the corporation is operated exclusively for the benefit of nyu langone hospitals and its affiliated organizations. in this capacity, the corporation, may, in order to improve the health and welfare…

Health
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement and the most unlike its peers is Yellowhammer Fund. 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

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 32 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 · OtherTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INCBARUCH COLLEGE — $190,000 · OtherBARUCH COLLEGENEW VICTORY THEATER — $175,000 · OtherNEW VICTORY THEATERGREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION — $175,000 · OtherGREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRE…Individual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHATZALAH — $54,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · Other+11 more — $175,100 · Other+11 moreFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $425,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE …FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $143,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALA…OLD MERCHANTS HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $135,000 · Arts & CultureOLD MERCHANTS HOUSE OF NE…HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $310,000 · Human ServicesHOT BREAD KITCHEN…HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $150,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETT…+1 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesCITY HARVEST INC — $366,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST …THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $140,000 · Civil RightsYellowhammer Fund — $5,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $5,000 · Civil RightsCHAI LIFELINE INC — $107,500 · HealthCOMMUNITIES CONFRONTING SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTION INC — $30,000 · HealthCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $65,000 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $12,500 · Religion
Other$1,164,100Arts & Culture$703,000Human Services$471,000Food & Nutrition$366,000Civil Rights$150,000Health$137,500Religion$77,500

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC — $425,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $366,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD — $310,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION — $175,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT — $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $143,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $140,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOLD MERCHANTS HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $135,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC — $107,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES CONFRONTING SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetGOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetART OMI INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PLACE IN NY INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S HISTORIC LANDMARK FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetYellowhammer Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $3,600 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC
  • Who funds HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD
  • Who funds THE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
  • Who funds OLD MERCHANTS HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC
  • Who funds CHOFETZ CHAIM HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WOMEN'S PRISON ASSOCIATION AND HOME
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES CONFRONTING SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTION INC
  • Who funds GOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC
  • Who funds ART OMI INC
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds OUR PLACE IN NY INC
  • Who funds ST MARK'S HISTORIC LANDMARK FUND
  • Who funds Yellowhammer Fund
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY

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 FundNY13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lynne Waxman Foundation 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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