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Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust

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.

$193k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
53%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$66,666
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$672k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$193k50%
FY202417$232k53%
FY202312$181k25%
FY202210$151k30%
FY20219$40k78%
FY202012$141kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$318kEducation$254kPhilanthropy$151kHealth$97kReligion$88kInternational$32kYouth Development$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Theatre Aspen$80,26750%
New York Shakespeare Festival$59,86040%
Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation$51,4251n/a
Thomas Jefferson University$40,00010%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$32,38060%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass$25,20030%
Aspen Film$20,65051%
Join Israel Inc$15,9461n/a
Children's Tumor Foundation$12,20040%
The Second Stage Theatre Inc$10,00010%
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc$10,00030%
Friends of Ofanim Inc$4,20010%
Congregation Emanuel$3,2501n/a
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$3,00010%
Anderson Ranch Arts Center$3,00010%
The Buddy Program Inc$2,50010%
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc$2,00010%
Manhattan Class Company Inc$1,30010%
Youth Renewal Fund$1,20010%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$1,00010%
Summit54$1,00010%
Mount Sinai Health System Inc$1,00020%
Temple Emanu-El$1,0001n/a
Beth David Reform Congregation$5001n/a
Mann Center for the Performing Arts$25010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($555k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTheatre Aspen: $80,267 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $59,860 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $32,380 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJazz at Aspen-Snowmass: $25,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Film: $20,650 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Tumor Foundation: $12,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Second Stage Theatre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Ofanim Inc: $4,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnderson Ranch Arts Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Buddy Program Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan Theatre Club Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan Class Company Inc: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Renewal Fund: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummit54: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMount Sinai Health System Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMann Center for the Performing Arts: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust

How much does Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust give?
Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust reported 16 grants totaling $192,587 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Education (26%), Philanthropy (16%).
Who are Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Theatre Aspen ($80k), New York Shakespeare Festival ($60k), Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation ($51k).
Does Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust 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 Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust based?
Wachs-Weingarten Charitable Trust is based in CO.

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 44 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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