California · Private foundation
Waldfogel 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.
- $15k
- Granted FY2023
- 7
- Grants FY2023
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Waldfogel Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Waldfogel Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $15k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Total assets, FY2023
- $851k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Waldfogel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 7 | $15k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $166k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $265k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $162k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $76k | 10% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $153k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embarcadero Institute | $75,000 | 2 | 50% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nexleaf Analytics | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Grabhorn Institute | $27,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Blaine County Charitable Fund Inc | $9,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $6,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sound Equine Options | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embarcadero Institute | $75,000 | 2 | 50% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nexleaf Analytics | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Grabhorn Institute | $27,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Blaine County Charitable Fund Inc | $9,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $6,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sound Equine Options | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Best Friends | $4,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Animal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Elizabeth F Gamble Garden | $500 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($730k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Waldfogel Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Waldfogel Family Foundation
- How much does Waldfogel Family Foundation give?
- Waldfogel Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $14,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Waldfogel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Arts & Culture (21%), Civil Rights (5%).
- Who are Waldfogel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Embarcadero Institute ($75k), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ($40k), Nexleaf Analytics ($30k).
- Does Waldfogel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waldfogel 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 Waldfogel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Waldfogel Family Foundation based?
- Waldfogel Family Foundation is based in CA.
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