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Valerie and Jeffrey S Wilpon Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Valerie and Jeffrey S Wilpon Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$606kArts & Culture$160kHealth$65kEnvironment$25kEmployment$20kRecreation & Sports$15kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$25,000
WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC$25,000
HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES$25,000
FIRST TEE$5,000
ONLY ONE INC$5,000
JDRF$5,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$1,500
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$292k · 9 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$292k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+30%

Still filing today

44%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionEmploymentEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • MDRC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +8%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • 9M
    911 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • VA
    VILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +30%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association. 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES: $75,000 · OtherHARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIESUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSIC SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSIC …911 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM: $35,000 · Other911 MEMORIAL & MUSEUMHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $35,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYTHE FIRST TEE OF METROPOLITAN NY: $15,000 · OtherTHE FIRST TEE OF METROPOLITAN…+6 more: $22,500 · Other+6 moreTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · ReligionCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $10,000 · HealthONLY ONE INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMDRC: $20,000 · Employment
Education$526,000Other$232,500Religion$50,000Health$30,000Environment$25,000Arts & Culture$25,000Employment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONLY ONE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMDRC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Valerie and Jeffrey S Wilpon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valerie and Jeffrey S Wilpon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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