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Woldenberg Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
115
Grants FY2024still arriving
28
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.5MHealth$3.5MPhilanthropy$2.4MArts & Culture$1.8MHuman Services$1.3MReligion$1.2MAnimals$850kInternational$720kOther$0
02FY2024 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k79 grants · $343k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $516k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $749k
$5,000
Median grant
28
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NEW SCHOOLS NEW ORLEANS$25,000
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE$25,000
JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE AVALON FUND: $150k → 7%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $15k → 23%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $5k → 23%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $97k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $97k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE: $20k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $50k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $20k → 23%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $15k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $10k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 23%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $47k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE: $30k → 15%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $24k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE: $20k → 15%NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER JCC: $97k → 23%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $97k → 23%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $15k → 15%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $15k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 15%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $13k → 15%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $13k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 15%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $9k → 15%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $5k → 15%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $5k → 15%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $5k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 163 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

163
180

Total granted

$18M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+9%

Still filing today

42%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    6× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +72%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +84%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2017–2022 · $486k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AN
    Audubon Nature Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue +37%
  • BC
    BOULDER CREST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +29%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS CULINARY AND HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION NOCHI
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.

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Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Loyola University

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…

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
Furman University

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.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Augustana College

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…

Education
10
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
11
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

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…

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12
Loyola University of Chicago

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

106 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. 106 of the 392 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/106
Grantees still filing
78/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM INC: $1,286,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL: $805,400 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALJEWISH FEDERATION: $696,434 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN: $600,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYNMT SINAI MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $530,000 · OtherMT SINAI MEDICAL FOUNDATIONAUDUBON INSTITUTE: $400,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL: $400,000 · Other+135 more: $5,171,778 · Other+135 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $3,682,929 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE T…Teach for America Inc: $400,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc+29 more: $622,000 · Education+29 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $215,000 · HealthBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $97,111 · Health+5 more: $71,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $550,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $400,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $60,000 · International+2 more: $40,000 · InternationalNEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $485,780 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $162,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $155,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 · Human ServicesELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $75,000 · Human Services+2 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesGOLDRING FAMILY FOUNDATION: $360,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $280,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $40,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $14,000 · PhilanthropyAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $450,000 · Animals
Other$9,889,612Education$4,704,929Health$1,383,111International$1,250,000Human Services$1,177,780Philanthropy$694,500Animals$450,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $3,682,929 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $550,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $485,780 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $450,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $400,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDRING FAMILY FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $280,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $190,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $166,667 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $162,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $155,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STEEG FAMILY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 7y, 91% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $97,111 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $43,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCrimestoppers Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetLOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKID SMART: $35,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVER NOLA INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION: $23,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗

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.

Goldring Family Found…Baptist Community Min…The Usdin-Weil Founda…Louise H Moffett Fami…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…The Greater New Orlea…Luther and Zita Templ…Patrick F Taylor Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…Cahn Family FoundationGustaf Westfeldt McIl…Keller Family Foundat…
Goldring Family FoundationLA120.3× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Woldenberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woldenberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Woldenberg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Woldenberg Foundation 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.

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 392 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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