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Wilpon Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
85%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$112,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$112,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$158k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 85% of the organizations Wilpon Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationSocial ScienceInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$1.1M8%
FY202313$2.4M85%
FY20221$750k100%
FY20211$40k0%
FY202010$1.8Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.4MHealth$1.0MSocial Science$750kArts & Culture$217kInternational$110kReligion$75kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
MO
KY
NC
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$945,00022%
The Aspen Institute Inc$750,10510%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$350,0002n/a
Washington University$350,00020%
University of Pittsburgh$350,00020%
University of Dayton$350,00020%
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame$350,00020%
President and Trustees of Bates College$350,00020%
Centre College$350,00020%
St Francis College$300,00010%
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All grantees of Wilpon Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$945,00022%
The Aspen Institute Inc$750,10510%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$350,0002n/a
Washington University$350,00020%
University of Pittsburgh$350,00020%
University of Dayton$350,00020%
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame$350,00020%
President and Trustees of Bates College$350,00020%
Centre College$350,00020%
St Francis College$300,00010%
Syracuse University$250,00010%
Queens College Foundation Inc$166,66611%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$100,00010%
Project Sunshine Inc$50,00021%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$50,00020%
Cornell University$20,00010%
Jh Israel$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($992k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wilpon Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $945,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $750,105 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWashington University: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentre College: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSt Francis College: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSyracuse University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueens College Foundation Inc: $166,666 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Sunshine Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPlaywrights Horizons Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJh Israel: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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How do I get to Wilpon Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wilpon Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wilpon Foundation Inc

How much does Wilpon Foundation Inc give?
Wilpon Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $1,165,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Wilpon Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Health (15%), Social Science (11%).
Who are Wilpon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Michigan ($945k), The Aspen Institute Inc ($750k), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($350k).
Does Wilpon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 85% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wilpon Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wilpon Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Wilpon Foundation Inc based?
Wilpon Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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