New York · Private foundation
Wunsch Foundation Inc
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.
- $562k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,893
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $137,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 71
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Wunsch Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 46 | $562k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $615k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $506k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $552k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $455k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 71 | $480k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $468k | 36% |
| FY2017 | 65 | $415k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Theater Company | $355,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Transportation Alternatives Inc | $218,783 | 8 | 1% |
| Ubuntu Pathways Inc | $201,460 | 8 | 1% |
| Centre College | $197,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $145,040 | 8 | 0% |
| The Storm King School | $143,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Washington Square Park Conservancy Inc | $101,472 | 8 | 2% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $99,102 | 8 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $86,826 | 8 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $80,287 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wunsch Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Altman Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wunsch Foundation Inc
- How much does Wunsch Foundation Inc give?
- Wunsch Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $562,026 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 71 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Wunsch Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Health (23%), Education (18%).
- Who are Wunsch Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Atlantic Theater Company ($355k), Transportation Alternatives Inc ($219k), Ubuntu Pathways Inc ($201k).
- Does Wunsch Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wunsch Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wunsch Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Wunsch Foundation Inc based?
- Wunsch Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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