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Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $836k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU Langone Health | $1,110,000 |
| Foundation for the Carolinas | $1,000,000 |
| Prep for Prep | $500,000 |
| Legal Aid Society | $320,500 |
| Harvard Law School | $270,500 |
| UJA Federation of New York | $260,000 |
| New York City Partnership Foundation Inc | $250,000 |
| Children's Aid Society | $240,000 |
| University of Chicago Law School | $239,500 |
| Columbia Law School | $161,000 |
| NYU School of Law | $160,000 |
| Equal Justice Works | $141,500 |
| Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | $100,000 |
| New York University | $75,000 |
| Mobilization for Justice | $75,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
101 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +36%
- PFPREP FOR PREP5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +22%
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · 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%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
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…
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
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…
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.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of the Moving Image. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
161 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 161 of the 222 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- 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 New York City Partnership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mobilization for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds HER JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds Community Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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