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Widder Foundation Inc at a glance

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Widder Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$154k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$404kEducation$221kHealth$15kEnvironment$12kRecreation & Sports$6kReligion$3kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
$35,230
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$104,265
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$35,230
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
UVA CANCER CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REIMAGINE INC: $250 → 10%HUDSON GUILD: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$447k · 22 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
10

Total granted

$447k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+23%

Still filing today

73%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MS
    MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +40%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    3× · 2021–2023 · $33k · revenue +44%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • HG
    HUDSON GUILDINC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +16%
  • SN
    SADIE NASH LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -15%
  • DS
    DALTON SCHOOLS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +23%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
7
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Park Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $129,765 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSICST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $99,000 · Arts & CultureST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $88,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONMuseum of Modern Art: $33,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern ArtMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $5,800 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $206,861 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSY…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 · Education+5 more: $3,000 · EducationDEPARTMENT OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS - MET MUSEUM: $28,000 · OtherDEPARTMEN…UVA CANCER CENTER: $15,000 · OtherUVA CANCE…COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: $4,950 · OtherCOLUMBIA …PENN HILLEL: $2,000 · Other+8 more: $3,740 · Other+8 moreCONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK: $10,000 · EnvironmentBLACK OAKS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE LIVING: $400 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $400 · EnvironmentCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,250 · Recreation & SportsHUDSON GUILDINC: $1,500 · Human ServicesREIMAGINE INC: $250 · Human ServicesTHE MONTAUK PLAYHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $700 · International
Arts & Culture$375,565Education$217,361Other$53,690Environment$10,800Recreation & Sports$6,250Human Services$1,750Philanthropy$1,500International$700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $206,861 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $129,765 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $99,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $88,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK: $10,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAUK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCO LAB THEATER GROUP INC: $1,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTAUK PLAYHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSADIE NASH LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAUK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK OAKS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE LIVING: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAUK VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREIMAGINE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Alice and Jaclyn Hous…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Widder Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Widder Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home