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The Werdiger Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2023
63
Itemized grants FY2023
63
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$1.7M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$350,000
Organizations funded a year
63 to 82
FY2022 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2023
$22M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations The Werdiger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202363$1.7M60%
FY202282$3.0Mn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$23MInternational$759kArts & Culture$222kEducation$210kCivil Rights$100kYouth Development$72kHuman Services$60kPhilanthropy$44kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2023.

Friends of Mosdot Goor$350,000
Yeshiva Ohr Shraga Veretzky$200,000
American Friends of Yeshiva D'Mir, Inc$122,000
Kahal Chasidim of Surfside$100,000
Vaad Hatzalah for Ukrainian Jewry New York$100,000
Mesorah Heritage Foundation$87,500
The Jewish Center for Special Education$80,200
Gemilos Chasodim Chasdei Moshe$60,000
Cong Ohr Shraga Dveretzky$60,000
Project Witness$50,000
Business Halacha Institute$50,000
Congregation Mikvah Yisroel of Flatbush$50,000
Kids and Camp Fund$36,000
Imadi Inc$25,000
Intl Commi f/t Preservation Har Hazeitim$25,000

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About The Werdiger Family Foundation

How much does The Werdiger Family Foundation give?
The Werdiger Family Foundation reported 63 itemized grants totaling $1,735,900, out of $2,529,429 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 82 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does The Werdiger Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (87%), International (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Does The Werdiger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Werdiger Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Werdiger Family Foundation based?
The Werdiger Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 120 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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