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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.
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 $10k26 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $137,000 |
| ATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY | $71,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,150 |
| UBUNTU EDUCATION FUND | $22,220 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $20,550 |
| BAY STREET THEATRE | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| GUIDE HALL OF EAST HAMPTON | $15,922 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $15,450 |
| TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES | $15,163 |
| Hamptons Dance Project | $15,000 |
| CENTRE COLLEGE KENTUCKY | $12,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,204 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $10,015 |
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, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 10 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- ATATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +51%
- TATRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +8%
- UPUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TKTHE KIDS OF NYU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -868%
- EHEAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -8%
- NMNYU MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
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…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boscobel Restoration Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 160 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
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 ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE STORM KING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KIDS OF NYU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Hamptons Dance Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CYCLE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds FEDCAP INC ↗
- Who funds THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
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 Wunsch Foundation Inc 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.
- Vista Life Innovations Inc — 33% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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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