California · Private foundation
Wachter Family 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.
- $441k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $140,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Wachter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 4 | $281k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $574k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $360k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $490k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $480k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $453k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $592k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $318k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $650,000 | 9 | 0% |
| After-School All-Stars | $475,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Paris Review Foundation Inc | $347,250 | 4 | 5% |
| Support and Feed Inc | $275,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Western Justice Center Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 5% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $62,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Venice Family Clinic | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Rape Foundation | $29,950 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wachter Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Sydney D Holland Foundation · QueensCare · Liberty Hill Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Wachter Family Foundation
- How much does Wachter Family Foundation give?
- Wachter Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $441,340 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wachter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (25%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Wachter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Berklee College of Music Inc ($650k), After-School All-Stars ($475k), The Paris Review Foundation Inc ($347k).
- Does Wachter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wachter Family 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 Wachter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is Wachter Family Foundation based?
- Wachter Family Foundation is based in CA.
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