How much does The Wahrsager Foundation give?

The Wahrsager Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $74,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Wahrsager Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Health (12%), Human Services (6%).

Who are The Wahrsager Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ethical Culture Fieldston School ($205k), The Trustees of the Smith College ($178k), Belmont Day School Inc ($45k).

Does The Wahrsager Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Wahrsager 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 Wahrsager Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is The Wahrsager Foundation based?

The Wahrsager Foundation is based in NY.

The Wahrsager Foundation

The Wahrsager Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Wahrsager 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.

$74k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$23k

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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$526kHealth$98kHuman Services$50kScience & Tech$40kEnvironment$20kArts & Culture$14kPhilanthropy$12kPublic Benefit$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $22k
$10k–50k3 grants · $53k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$280k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL	$22,500
SMITH COLLEGE	$20,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY	$10,000
BELMONT DAY SCHOOL	$5,000
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND	$5,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY	$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$1,000
THE NATURE CONNECTION	$1,000
CANAVAN FOUNDATION	$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA	$750
PETA	$500
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION	$500
THE DOE FUND	$500
THIRTEEN	$250
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION	$250

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 (FY18–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$865k · 43 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$865k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+38%

Still filing today

67%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

EC
ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +35%
TT
THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +52%
BD
BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +64%

Funded once

CS
CAMP STARFISH INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +49%
AF
AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -36%
VO
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
one grant, 2017 · $500

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.

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

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

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

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

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

Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

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

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research Inc

Prim&r advances the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, behavioral and social science research. prim&r accomplishes this mission through education, membership services, professional certification, public policy…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Citizenship Counts. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 62 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)

41/43

Grantees still filing

34/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$522,500Other$262,615Health$32,850Human Services$31,500Public Benefit$8,600Philanthropy$8,500Crime & Legal$7,500

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home