New York · Private foundation
The Witten 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.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 27
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Witten Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 26 | $830k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $972k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $879k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $480k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York City Center Inc | $1,433,285 | 4 | 2% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $230,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Museum of Natural History | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Larchmont Temple Inc | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Jed Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dorrance Dance Incorporated | $17,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Friends School | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| New York Public Radio | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Witten Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Glff Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Witten Family Foundation
- How much does The Witten Family Foundation give?
- The Witten Family Foundation reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,989,791, out of $2,668,135 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 27 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Witten Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (5%).
- Who are The Witten Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: New York City Center Inc ($1.4M), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($230k), Fresh Air Fund ($75k).
- Does The Witten Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Witten Family 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 Witten Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Glff Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The Witten Family Foundation based?
- The Witten Family Foundation is based in NY.
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