New York · Private foundation
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 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.
- $9.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 98
- Grants FY2025
- 93
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,378,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 97
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $570k 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 | 93 | $8.9M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 93 | $5.7M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 97 | $6.1M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $7.4M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 81 | $7.9M | 69% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $7.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prep for Prep | $2,500,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Children's Aid Society | $2,300,800 | 6 | 1% |
| New York City Partnership Foundation Inc | $2,000,000 | 4 | 5% |
| The Legal Aid Society | $1,535,300 | 6 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $1,239,400 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $641,500 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Hebrew University Inc | $615,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mobilization for Justice Inc | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New York University | $285,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 187 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: United Way Miami Inc · Quinn Emanuel Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Weil Gotshal & Manges Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation with peer funders
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About Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation
- How much does Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation give?
- Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation reported 98 grants totaling $9,123,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 97 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Crime & Legal (25%), Health (17%).
- Who are Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Prep for Prep ($2.5M), The Children's Aid Society ($2.3M), New York City Partnership Foundation Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 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 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Miami Inc, Quinn Emanuel Foundation, The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation.
- Where is Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation based?
- Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation is based in NY.
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