New York · Private foundation
Waldman 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.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,796,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $48M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Waldman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 27 | $2.8M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $2.7M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $2.5M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.9M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Actors' Fund of America | $5,419,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Circle in the Square Theatre School Inc | $3,844,000 | 6 | 64% |
| Spca of Westchester Inc | $265,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Torah Academy Inc | $143,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Projects With Care Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 15% |
| The Episcopal Actors' Guild of America Inc | $107,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Irish Repertory Theatre Companyinc | $86,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chabad Shul of Closter Inc | $62,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ahrc New York City Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Waldman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Waldman Foundation
- How much does Waldman Foundation give?
- Waldman Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $2,803,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Waldman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), Membership Benefit (39%), Animals (3%).
- Who are Waldman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Actors' Fund of America ($5.4M), Circle in the Square Theatre School Inc ($3.8M), Spca of Westchester Inc ($265k).
- Does Waldman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Waldman 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 Waldman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc.
- Where is Waldman Foundation based?
- Waldman Foundation is based in NY.
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