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The Wisch Family 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.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Arts & Culture$506kCivil Rights$356kEducation$224kReligion$39kInternational$27kHealth$9kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $123k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$100,000
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER$48,400
STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES$22,100
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$20,000
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$19,800
ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER$12,600
SERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$9,510
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$5,000
ART COUNCIL INC$3,000
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC$2,600
RX ART INC$2,025
NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM$1,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$1,000
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$1,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RX ART INC: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$718k · 8 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
22

Total granted

$718k
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+3%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsEducationHealthReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +44%
  • AR
    ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER
    3× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +13%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CT
    CREATIVE TIME INC
    one grant, 2023 · $58k · revenue -49%
  • SU
    stndford university
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Berggruen Institute
Education
2
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
5
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
California Institute of Contemporary Art
8
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
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
10
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
11
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr21%17%20–35yr14%43%35–55yr9%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr21%15%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr9%63%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
5,075/46,991

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
15/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $269,050 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INCCREATIVE TIME INC — $57,650 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE TIME INCNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC — $38,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE AR…TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $18,600 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $62,252 · Arts & Culture+10 moreAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $350,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEETHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $145,418 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEG…+2 more — $3,500 · Educationstndford university — $45,000 · Otherstndford univer…PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC — $35,200 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYN…Film At Lincoln Center — $26,500 · OtherFilm At Lincoln…Jewish Women International — $16,500 · OtherJewish Women In…SERPENTINE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $9,510 · OtherSERPENTINE AMER…Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc — $6,000 · Other+12 more — $24,285 · Other+12 moreThe Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation — $5,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE INC — $4,000 · ReligionCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$465,552Civil Rights$350,000Education$178,918Other$162,995Health$5,000Religion$4,000Recreation & Sports$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $350,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $269,050 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $145,418 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $57,650 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC — $38,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER — $18,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Women International — $16,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $9,275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART21 INC — $2,325 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $2,052 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRX ART INC — $2,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTTABLE INC — $760 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arison Arts FoundationFL19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arison Arts Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Cowles Charitable Trust · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · Arnhold Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Lawrence and Carol Saper Foundation · Ag Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Wisch Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Wisch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wisch Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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