Funding search · EIN 133948773 · New York, NY
The Waterwheel Foundation
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 234
- grants reported
- $7.4M
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $10,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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9 grants matching “generalgeneral” · $106,390
- $24,091
Full Plates Full Potential · Brunswick, ME · 2024
Generalgeneral
- $20,000
Forgotten Harvest · Oak Park, MI · 2024
Generalgeneral
- $8,972
Title Track · New York, NY · 2024
Generalgeneral
- $5,000
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum · Vergennes, VT · 2024
Generalgeneral
- $20,000
Forgotten Harvest · Oak Park, MI · 2023
Generalgeneral
- $12,045
Full Plates Full Potential · Brunswick, ME · 2023
Generalgeneral
- $940
Southwick Music Hall · Burlington, VT · 2023
Generalgeneral
- $10,342
Icm Food and Clothing Bank · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
Generalgeneral
- $5,000
Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center · Burlington, VT · 2022
Generalgeneral
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Vermont Community Foundation2 grants · $3.5M
- Steps To End Domestic Violence3 grants · $195,848
- Burlington City Arts3 grants · $150,000
- Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center3 grants · $100,293
- The Research Foundation for the Suny1 grant · $97,750
- Hunger Free America3 grants · $89,012
- Players Philanthropy Fund1 grant · $87,000
- Divided Sky Foundation2 grants · $82,231
- Nofa-Vt3 grants · $80,000
- The Flynn Center2 grants · $80,000
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 234 grants.
- $2.7M
Vermont Community Foundation · Middlebury, VT · 2024
General
- $800,000
Vermont Community Foundation · Middlebury, VT · 2023
General
- $97,750
The Research Foundation for the Suny · Albany, NY · 2024
General
- $87,000
Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2023
General
- $76,648
Steps To End Domestic Violence · Burlington, VT · 2023
General
- $75,000
Kin Beh Education Center Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2024
General
- $75,000
Kiin Beh Education Center Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2023
General
- $70,907
Conservative Law Foundation · Boston, MA · 2022
General
- $70,000
Steps To End Domestic Violence · Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $64,492
Phans for Racial Equity · St Pete Beach, FL · 2022
General
- $61,089
The Conscious Alliance · Broomfield, CO · 2022
General
- $51,799
Project Hope - the People-To-People Healt · Washington, DC · 2022
General
- $50,000
Burlington City Arts · Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $50,000
The Flynn Center for Performing Arts · Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $50,000
Burlington City Arts · Burlington, VT · 2023
General
- $50,000
Echo at the Leahy Center for Lake Champla · Burlington, VT · 2023
General
- $50,000
Justice Innovation · New York, NY · 2023
General
- $50,000
Burlington City Arts · Burlington, VT · 2022
General
- $50,000
Vermont Land Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2022
General
- $49,200
Steps To End Domestic Violence · Burlington, VT · 2022
General
- $47,765
Hope for the City · Henderson, NV · 2024
General
- $44,492
Divided Sky Foundation · Ludlow, VT · 2022
General
- $44,492
Head Count · New York, NY · 2022
Generl
- $44,492
Mockingbird Foundation · Moorpark, CA · 2022
General
- $40,000
Champlain Valley Office · Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $40,000
The Flynn Center · Burlington, VT · 2023
General
- $40,000
The Flynn Center · Burlington, VT · 2022
General
- $38,733
Hunger Free America · New York, NY · 2023
General general
- $37,739
Divided Sky Foundation · Ludlow, VT · 2024
General
- $37,535
Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center · Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $35,958
Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center · Burlington, VT · 2022
General
- $35,000
Friends of the Winooski River · Montpelier, VT · 2024
General
- $35,000
Journalism Funding Partners · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General
- $32,400
Coalition for the Homeless · New York, NY · 2022
General
- $32,400
Hunger Free America · New York, NY · 2022
General general
- $30,000
King Street Center · Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $30,000
Nofa-Vt · Richmond, VT · 2024
General
- $30,000
Rozalia Project · Kittery, ME · 2024
General
- $30,000
Nofa-Vt · Richmond, VT · 2023
General
- $26,800
Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center · Burlington, VT · 2023
General
- $25,000
American Red Cross · Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $25,000
Green Mountain Club · Waterbury Center, VT · 2024
General
- $25,000
Speedway Childrens Charities · Concord, NC · 2024
General
- $25,000
Team Rubicon · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General
- $25,000
The Agrihood Collective · Shelburne, VT · 2024
General
- $25,000
The Humane Society of the United States · Washington, DC · 2024
General
- $25,000
The Retreat · East Hampton, NY · 2024
General
- $25,000
Vermont Journalism Trust · Montpelier, VT · 2024
General
- $25,000
World Center Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2024
General
- $25,000
Atlantic City Arts Foundation · Atlantic City, NJ · 2023
General
- $25,000
Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City · Atlantic City, NJ · 2023
General
- $25,000
Communities Revolutionizing Open Public S · Linwood, NJ · 2023
General
- $25,000
Covenant House New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2023
General
- $25,000
Foundation of the Board of Trustees · Atlantic City, NJ · 2023
General
- $25,000
Intervale Center · Burlington, VT · 2023
General
- $25,000
King Street Center · Burlington, VT · 2023
General
- $25,000
Wood4good · Jericho, VT · 2023
General
- $25,000
Intervale Center · Burlington, VT · 2022
General
- $25,000
Lincolnville Historical Society · Lincolnville, ME · 2022
General
- $24,091
Full Plates Full Potential · Brunswick, ME · 2024
Generalgeneral
- $21,435
Tennesse Riverkeeper · Decatur, AL · 2023
General
- $20,000
Common Roots · So Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $20,000
Drumstrong · Charlotte, NC · 2024
General
- $20,000
Forgotten Harvest · Oak Park, MI · 2024
Generalgeneral
- $20,000
Kids On the Ball · So Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $20,000
Sweet Relief · Brea, CA · 2024
General
- $20,000
Vermont Parks Forever · Montpelier, VT · 2024
General
- $20,000
Backline Care · Portland, OR · 2023
General
- $20,000
Forgotten Harvest · Oak Park, MI · 2023
Generalgeneral
- $20,000
Vermont Parks Forever · Montpelier, VT · 2023
General
- $20,000
Echo at the Leahy Center · Burlington, VT · 2022
General
- $20,000
Kids On the Ball · So Burlington, VT · 2022
General
- $20,000
King Street Center · Burlington, VT · 2022
General
- $20,000
Mimi Fishman Foundation · Des Peres, MO · 2022
General
- $20,000
Nofa-Vt · Richmond, VT · 2022
General
- $20,000
Vermont Parks Forever · Montpelier, VT · 2022
General
- $17,879
Hunger Free America · New York, NY · 2024
General general
- $17,412
Street Medicine Institute · Ingomar, PA · 2024
General
- $16,597
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank · Akron, OH · 2022
General
- $16,597
Beats Not Bullets · Baltimore, MD · 2022
General
- $16,597
Catskill Mountain Keeper · Livingston Manor, NY · 2022
General
- $16,597
Connecticut River Watershed Council · Greenfield, MA · 2022
General
- $16,597
Libertae · Bensalem, PA · 2022
General
- $16,597
Long Island Cares · Hauppauge, NY · 2022
General
- $16,597
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute · East Troy, WI · 2022
General
- $16,597
Nc Conservation Network · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General
- $16,597
The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter · Bangot, ME · 2022
General
- $16,597
World Systems Solutions · Pembroke Pines, FL · 2022
General
- $15,000
Age Well · Colchester, VT · 2024
General
- $15,000
Edmunds Middle School Music · Burlington, VT · 2024
General
- $15,000
Community Nurse Connection · Lebanon, NH · 2023
General
- $15,000
Green Mountain Club · Waterbury Center, VT · 2023
General
- $15,000
Groovesafe · Stow, MA · 2023
General
- $15,000
Groovesafe · Locust Valley, NY · 2022
General
- $15,000
Make-a-Wish Vermont · Shelburne, VT · 2022
General
- $15,000
Three Peaks Medical Clinic · Waitsfield, VT · 2022
General
- $15,000
Trout Unlimited · Arlington, VT · 2022
General
- $13,733
Alliance for a Green Economy · Syracuse, NY · 2023
General
- $13,733
Cape Fear Riverwatch · Wilmington, NC · 2023
General
- $13,733
Consious Alliance · Broomfield, CO · 2023
General
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