How much does The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation give?

The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $10,368 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (45%), Religion (38%), Health (9%).

Who are The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: National Council of Young Israel ($28k), 4747 Charity Corp ($4k), Sharsheret Inc ($3k).

Does The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Wendy Fyman Charitable 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 Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, The Mermelstein Foundation.

Where is The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation based?

The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation

The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Wendy Fyman Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$28kReligion$23kHealth$6kHuman Services$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$900Education$635International$252Other$0

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$540

Median grant

States reached

$26k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Young Israel of Jamaica Estates	$5,370
4747 Charity Corp	$1,398
Chai Lifeline Inc	$1,360
Yeshiva Har Torah	$700
Sharsheret	$540
Darchei Menachem	$360
Belev Echad	$360
Orlando Torah Academy	$180
Individual grant recipient	$100

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 (FY20–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$44k · 11 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$44k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%

+35%

Still filing today

55%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationReligionHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

SI
Sharsheret Inc
6× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +179%
CL
CHAI LIFELINE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +43%
YH
YESHIVA HAR TORAH
4× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +74%

Funded once

YI
Young Israel of Jamaica Esates
one grant, 2023 · $8k
HA
HEBREW ACADEMY OF LONG BEACH
one grant, 2021 · $1k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Sherit Isroel

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American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

Ahavas Torah V'chesed

Philanthropy

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

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Aviv Ha Torah

Provides day care in the heart of tel-aviv. provides afternoon activities for young children and youth. there are evening classes for adults covering a variety of subjects.

International

American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion

Yeshiva Beit Rafael

Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.

Philanthropy

Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion

American Friends of Yeshiva High School of Kiryat Arba Inc

Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide educational and social improvement for the children of kiryat arba, israel.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc; the most unlike its peers is Family and Children's Association Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 29 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)

11/11

Grantees still filing

10/11

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$53,296Health$5,834Human Services$1,140Religion$540Education$360International$252

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY25× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · The Mermelstein Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Stephen and Regina Savitsky Foundation · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report 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, 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