· Private foundation
Wolfensohn Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $753k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NY | $230,000 |
| KAVOD | $104,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY | $100,000 |
| YALE PROGRAM ON CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION | $100,000 |
| MET COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER CONEY ISLANDPAID THROUGH UJA | $100,000 |
| AFIPO | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $82,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $75,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $50,000 |
| SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| ANTHOS HOME INC | $50,000 |
| WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICESPAID THROUGH UJA | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
99 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 39 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $868k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BFBOTWINICK-WOLFENSOHN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.2M · revenue ×13 · 82% of their budget
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC4× · 2018–2024 · $540k · revenue +22%
- BABROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC4× · 2021–2024 · $368k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SMSOROKA MEDICAL CENTERPAID THROUGH UJAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
- BIBROTHERS IN ARMS AKA BROTHERS AND SISTERS FOR ISRAELPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT Fone grant, 2023 · $33k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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).
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
180 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. 180 of the 263 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 BOTWINICK-WOLFENSOHN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds HARMONY LABS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHOS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BANG ON A CAN ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POLLYLABS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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: Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Ag Foundation · Fjc · The Starr Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Indian Trail Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wolfensohn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wolfensohn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
- Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
- Tifereth Raphael Inc: 17% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company: 5% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc: 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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