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The Wayen Charitable Fdn at a glance

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The Wayen Charitable Fdn

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.

$257k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$999kPublic Safety & Disaster$59k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
$38,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSOCIATION$69,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$52,150
ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$46,000
CHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$38,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$29,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE PAIN MANAGEMENT$14,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$9,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $69k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $9k → 17%NATIONAL PARKINSONS FDN: $5k → 15%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $46k → 17%OPERATION SMILE: $1k → 10%AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $29k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $9k → 17%NATIONAL PARKINSONS FDN: $3k → 15%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $46k → 17%OPERATION SMILE: $1k → 10%AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $29k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $9k → 17%NATIONAL PARKINSONS FDN: $3k → 15%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $46k → 17%AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $29k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $9k → 17%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $32k → 17%AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $9k → 11%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $9k → 17%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $9k → 17%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $5k → 17%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $2k → 17%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%ALZHEIMERS FDN OF AMERICA: $1k → 17%ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $48k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $40k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $35k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE PAIN MANAGEMENT: $24k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE HIVAGING: $24k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE HIVAGING: $24k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $15k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE PAIN MANAGEMENT: $14k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE PAIN MANAGEMENT: $14k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE PAIN MANAGEMENT: $14k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $600 → 17%CHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $38k → 17%CHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $38k → 17%CHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $38k → 17%MT SINAI BETH ISRAEL CENTER FOR POST COVID CARE: $28k → 17%MT SINAI BETH ISRAEL CENTER FOR POST COVID CARE: $28k → 17%MT SINAI BETH ISRAEL CENTER FOR POST COVID CARE: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+74%

Still filing today

38%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $170k · revenue +59%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $165k · revenue +29%
  • CB
    CHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $114k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +74%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $138,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $126,750 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERMT SINAI BETH ISRAEL CENTER FOR POST COVID CARE: $81,000 · OtherMT SINAI BETH ISRAEL CENTER FOR POST COVID CAREWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE PAIN MANAGEMENT: $66,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE PAIN MANAGEMENTHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $52,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE HIVAGING: $48,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE HIVAGINGST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $24,000 · Other+1 more: $11,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $170,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $165,000 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCCHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $114,000 · HealthCHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC+1 more: $1,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $59,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SMILE INC: $2,000 · International
Other$546,750Health$450,000Human Services$59,000International$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $165,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $114,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $59,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES B WANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wayen Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wayen Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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