· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GABRIELA LENA FRANK CREATIVE ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| ARTS AND LETTERS | $5,000 |
| PEACE CLUB | $5,000 |
| CONCERN FOUNDATION | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +79%
Funded once
- ALAssoc La Chambre Aux Echosone grant, 2017 · $20k
- KBKing Baudouion Foundationone grant, 2023 · $20k
- JFJazz Foundation of America Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +728%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
- Who funds LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wise Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wise Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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