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Woldenberg Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k79 grants · $343k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $516k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $749k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL WW II MUSEUM | $215,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $65,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $64,000 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| CITY YEAR | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MDA | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $46,000 |
| EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IDF | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,000 |
| KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| NEW SCHOOLS NEW ORLEANS | $25,000 |
| JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $979k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
163 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 97 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND6× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +72%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC5× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +84%
- NONEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2017–2022 · $486k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ANAudubon Nature Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue +37%
- BCBOULDER CREST FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +29%
- NONEW ORLEANS CULINARY AND HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION NOCHIone grant, 2022 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Steeg Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 392 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDRING FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE STEEG FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Cahn Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Keller Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Woldenberg Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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