New York · Private foundation
Widder Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $154k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,230
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $104,265
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Widder Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 3 | $119k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $54k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $51k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $58k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $50k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $43k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan School of Music | $129,765 | 7 | 0% |
| St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc | $99,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $88,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $33,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Concerned Citizens of Montauk | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $6,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Montauk Historical Society | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Co Lab Theater Group Inc | $1,800 | 5 | 0% |
| The Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan School of Music | $129,765 | 7 | 0% |
| St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc | $99,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $88,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $33,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Concerned Citizens of Montauk | $10,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $6,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Montauk Historical Society | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Co Lab Theater Group Inc | $1,800 | 5 | 0% |
| The Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Hudson Guildinc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montauk Fire Department | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $700 | 2 | 0% |
| Ethical Culture Fieldston School | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Dalton Schools Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bennington College Corporation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| First Baptist of Woodstock | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Rocking the Boat Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Council on the Environment Inc | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| Montauk Village Association Inc | $250 | 1 | 1% |
| Reimagine Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Widder Foundation Inc 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: Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Widder Foundation Inc
- How much does Widder Foundation Inc give?
- Widder Foundation Inc reported 4 grants totaling $154,495 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Widder Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Education (33%), Health (2%).
- Who are Widder Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Manhattan School of Music ($130k), St Lukes Chamber Ensemble Inc ($99k), The Carnegie Hall Corporation ($88k).
- Does Widder Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Widder Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Widder Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Widder Foundation Inc based?
- Widder Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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