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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$335kArts & Culture$250kHealth$238kHuman Services$42kCommunity Improvement$20kPhilanthropy$15kYouth Development$14kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$261k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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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.

area typical 11%Wounded Warrior Project: $50 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CA
UT
NE
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$775k · 25 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
31

Total granted

$775k
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

76%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +256%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    5× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +50%
  • TH
    THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • AL
    Assoc La Chambre Aux Echos
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • KB
    King Baudouion Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • JF
    Jazz Foundation of America Incgraduated
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
2
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
3
Bloomingdale School of Music

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.

Arts & Culture
4
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Bang On a Can

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…

Arts & Culture
6
American Composers Forum

To advocate for and support living composers

Arts & Culture
7
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

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.

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8
C4 Choral Composer Conductor Collective

To commission and perform choral works

Arts & Culture
9
Foundation for Modern Opera
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10
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
11
Lyrica Baroque

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARD COLLEGE: $191,800 · EducationBARD COLLEGETrustees of Tufts College: $125,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeMUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC: $25,000 · EducationMUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM …BABSON COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE+1 more: $1,700 · EducationNY EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $150,000 · OtherNY EYE & EAR INFIRMARYUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF ME…Penny Lane Centers: $21,300 · OtherPenny Lane CentersNOLS Annual Fund: $20,000 · OtherNOLS Annual FundAssoc La Chambre Aux Echos: $20,000 · OtherAssoc La Chambre Aux EchosKing Baudouion Foundation: $20,000 · OtherKing Baudouion Foundation+28 more: $72,514 · Other+28 moreTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $45,200 · Arts & CultureTHE HARMONY PROGRAM I…NEW MUSIC USA INC: $42,500 · Arts & CultureNEW MUSIC USA INCINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CONTEMP…AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS OR…THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM O…Nashville Symphony Association: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNashville Symphony As…GABRIELA LENA FRANK CREATIVE ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $9,000 · Arts & CulturePS 21 INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $13,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCONCERN FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyJazz Foundation of America Inc: $12,500 · PhilanthropyMERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST: $2,500 · PhilanthropyPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $3,525 · InternationalAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,050 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $300 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · HealthRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $500 · Environment
Education$363,500Other$328,814Arts & Culture$182,200Philanthropy$60,000International$3,525Health$1,450Environment$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARD COLLEGE: $191,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $45,200 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNEW MUSIC USA INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetPenny Lane Centers: $21,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELA LENA FRANK CREATIVE ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $9,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS INC: $8,424 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetPS 21 INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $3,525 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERCE CUNNINGHAM TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $2,140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER ISLAND DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOSTLY MODERN PROJECTS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHLANDS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOMING GROVE VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPNY21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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