· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $941k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+8 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $1,378,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $1,250,000 |
| NYU LANGONE HEALTH | $1,210,000 |
| NYU SCHOOL OF LAW | $602,500 |
| PREP FOR PREP | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL | $339,000 |
| THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $320,500 |
| INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $250,000 |
| CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $240,000 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $185,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY | $165,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $100,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| FIREAID LA | $100,000 |
| PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
118 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PFPREP FOR PREP6× · 2020–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +22%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +36%
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- NYNew York University Office of Gift Administrationone grant, 2020 · $2.2M
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -4%
- SFSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +125%
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.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…
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…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
186 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. 186 of the 249 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds New York City Partnership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mobilization for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds HER JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Hope Inc: 41% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in: 9% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Easter Seals South Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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