· Private foundation
The Wise Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| NY EYE & EAR INFIRMARY | $25,000 |
| NEW MUSIC USA | $10,000 |
| HARMONY PROGRAM | $5,200 |
| ARTS AND LETTERS | $5,000 |
| PEACE CLUB | $5,000 |
| CONCERN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GABRIELA LENA FRANK CREATIVE ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST | $2,500 |
| PS 21 INC | $2,500 |
| LUNA COMPOSITION LAB | $2,000 |
| ACT THROUGH MUSIC INC | $1,000 |
| PENNY LANE CENTERS | $600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
BARD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +256%
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +50%- THTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC5× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- KBKing Baudouion Foundationone grant, 2023 · $20k
- ALAssoc La Chambre Aux Echosone grant, 2017 · $20k
- JFJazz Foundation of America Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +728%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…
To advocate for and support living composers
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
To commission and perform choral works
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 61 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSIC USA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Penny Lane Centers ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Nashville Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds GABRIELA LENA FRANK CREATIVE ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds PS 21 INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds MERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · New Music USA Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Cheswatyr Foundation Inc · The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation · Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation Inc · Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III
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 Wise Family Charitable 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.