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 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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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

$1.3M
2022
$2.1M
2023
$4.0M
2024

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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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.