· Public charity
The Wartburg Foundation
The foundation's mission is to steward the wartburg endowment funds; generate income through testamentary gifts, annual fund solicitations, and grant requests; and award funds to wartburg adult care community programs, other lutheran ministries, or to any other deserving charity that strives to help older adults live with dignity.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WARTBURG HOME | $272,697 |
| WARTBURG SENIOR HOUSING | $75,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $872k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Wartburg Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wartburg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wartburg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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