Funding search · EIN 237011002 · Purchase, NY

Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation

Name: Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

110
grants reported: $102.6M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $100,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. 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

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

The Museum of Modern Art2 grants · $22.0M
Council On Foreign Relations3 grants · $18.5M
Museum of Modern Art2 grants · $17.2M
Skidmore College4 grants · $7.8M
Memorial Sloan-Kettering1 grant · $7.5M
Williams College3 grants · $5.1M
Oceana4 grants · $4.3M
Northwell Health Foundation2 grants · $3.5M
Council On Foreign Relations1 grant · $2.5M
The Carver Center4 grants · $2.0M

Giving over time

$20.8M

2021

$21.1M

2022

$32.5M

2023

$28.3M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 110 grants.

$13.5M
Council On Foreign Relations · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$12.1M
The Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$11.9M
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2021
General purpose
$9.9M
The Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$7.5M
Memorial Sloan-Kettering · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$6.3M
Skidmore College · Saratoga Springs, NY · 2022
General support
$5.3M
Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$5.0M
Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Council On Foreign Relations · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$2.5M
Northwell Health Foundation · New Hyde Park, NY · 2022
General support
$2.5M
Council On Foreign Relations · New York, NY · 2021
General purpose
$2.0M
Council On Foreign Relations · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$1.5M
The Jay Heritage Center · Rye, NY · 2021
General purpose
$1.3M
Oceana · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$1.1M
Oceana · Washington, DC · 2021
General purpose
$1.0M
Hospital for Special Surgery Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Oceana · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Oceana · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$1.0M
Jay Heritage Center · Rye, NY · 2022
General support
$1.0M
Northwell Health Foundation · Westbury, NY · 2021
General purpose
$750,000
American Enterprise Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$750,000
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute · Williamstown, MA · 2021
General purpose
$650,000
Skidmore College · Saratoga Springs, NY · 2024
General support
$500,000
The Carver Center · Port Chester, NY · 2024
General support
$500,000
The Carver Center · Port Chester, NY · 2023
General support
$500,000
1898 Foundation · Purchase, NY · 2022
General support
$500,000
The Carver Center · Port Chester, NY · 2022
General support
$500,000
Skidmore College · Saratoga Springs, NY · 2021
General purpose
$500,000
The Carver Center · Port Chester, NY · 2021
General purpose
$450,000
Skidmore College · Saratoga Springs, NY · 2023
General support
$265,000
Wnet · New York, NY · 2021
General purpose
$255,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$250,000
Wnet · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$250,000
Cato Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$250,000
The Clark Institute · Williamstown, MA · 2023
General support
$250,000
Wnet · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$250,000
Cato Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$250,000
The Clark Institute · Williamstown, MA · 2022
General support
$250,000
Greenwich Hospital · Greenwich, CT · 2021
General purpose
$200,000
Eagle Hill School · Greenwich, CT · 2024
General support
$200,000
Friends of Rye Town Park · Rye, NY · 2024
General support
$200,000
Greenwich Hospital · Greenwich, CT · 2024
General support
$200,000
The Clark Institute · Williamstown, MA · 2024
General support
$200,000
Greenwich Hospital · Greenwich, CT · 2023
General support
$200,000
Greenwich Hospital · Greenwich, CT · 2022
General support
$200,000
Wnet · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$150,000
The Rectory School · Pomfret, CT · 2023
General support
$125,000
Friends of Green Chimneys · Brewster, NY · 2022
General support
$100,000
Blythedale Children'S Hospital · Valhalla, NY · 2024
General support
$100,000
Caramoor Center for Music and Arts · Katonah, NY · 2024
General support
$100,000
Rye Country Day School · Rye, NY · 2024
General support
$100,000
The New York Public Library · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$100,000
Blythedale Children'S Hospital · Valhalla, NY · 2023
General support
$100,000
Caramoor Center for Music and Arts · Katonah, NY · 2023
General support
$100,000
Eagle Hill School · Greenwich, CT · 2023
General support
$100,000
Friends of Green Chimneys · Brewster, NY · 2023
General support
$100,000
The New York Public Library · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$100,000
Blythedale Children'S Hospital · Valhalla, NY · 2022
General support
$100,000
Caramoor Center for Music and Arts · Katonah, NY · 2022
General support
$100,000
Harvard Business School · Boston, MA · 2022
General support
$100,000
New York Public Library · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$100,000
Rye Country Day School · Rye, NY · 2022
General support
$100,000
Blythedale Children'S Hospital · Valhalla, NY · 2021
General purpose
$100,000
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts · Katonah, NY · 2021
General purpose
$100,000
Harvard Business School · Boston, MA · 2021
General purpose
$75,000
Harvard Business School · Boston, MA · 2024
General support
$75,000
Harvard Business School · Boston, MA · 2023
General support
$50,000
Adirondack Forty-Sixers Inc (the) · Plattsburgh, NY · 2024
General support
$50,000
Readworksorg · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$50,000
Rye Free Reading Room · Rye, NY · 2024
General support
$50,000
Readworksorg · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$50,000
Rye Free Reading Room · Rye, NY · 2023
General support
$50,000
Readworks · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$50,000
Rye Free Reading Room · Rye, NY · 2022
General support
$50,000
Chief'S Memorial Campership Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2021
General purpose
$50,000
The Friends of Green Chimneys · Brewster, NY · 2021
General purpose
$50,000
The New York Public Library · New York, NY · 2021
General purpose
$50,000
The Rye Free Reading Room · Rye, NY · 2021
General purpose
$35,000
Rye Country Day School · Rye, NY · 2021
General purpose
$30,000
Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2022
General support
$25,000
Children'S Museum of Manhattan · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$25,000
Rye Country Day School · Rye, NY · 2023
General support
$20,000
The Jewish Museum · New York, NY · 2024
General support
$20,000
Citymeals On Wheels · New York, NY · 2023
General support
$15,000
Williams College · Williamstown, MA · 2024
General support
$15,000
Jewish Museum · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$15,000
Playwrights Horizon · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$15,000
The Jewish Museum · New York, NY · 2021
General purpose
$15,000
Williams College Museum of Art · Williamstown, MA · 2021
General purpose
$10,000
East Side Settlement · Bron, NY · 2023
General support
$10,000
New York Hall of Science · Corona, NY · 2023
General support
$10,000
American - Scandanavian Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$10,000
New York Hall of Science · Corona, NY · 2022
General support
$10,000
The Claremont Institute · Claremont, CA · 2022
General support
$10,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2021
General purpose
$10,000
National Dance Institute · New York, NY · 2021
General purpose
$10,000
New York Hall of Science · Corona, NY · 2021
General purpose
$7,500
Playwrights Horizon · New York, NY · 2021
General purpose
$5,000
Justworld International · Wellington, FL · 2024
General support
$5,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
General support

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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.