New York · 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.
- $124k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $261k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Wise Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $124k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $87k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $126k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $148k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $21k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $79k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $117k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $106k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bard College | $191,800 | 8 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Harmony Program Inc | $45,200 | 5 | 1% |
| Concern Foundation | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Music USA Inc | $42,500 | 5 | 0% |
| International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation Inc | $27,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Music Composition Online Mentoring Program Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Penny Lane Centers | $21,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Babson College | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jazz Foundation of America Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wise Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare The Wise Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About The Wise Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Wise Family Charitable Foundation give?
- The Wise Family Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $123,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wise Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (27%), Health (25%).
- Who are The Wise Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bard College ($192k), Trustees of Tufts College ($125k), The Harmony Program Inc ($45k).
- Does The Wise Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wise Family 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 Wise Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include 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.
- Where is The Wise Family Charitable Foundation based?
- The Wise Family Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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