Grants awarded
Who does Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation fund?
Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation has awarded $127 million across 131 grants to 58 grantees between 2020 and 2024. Its giving concentrates in arts & culture. Its typical grant is $100,000, with most between $25,000 and $500,000. Repeat grantees receive a median $162,500 versus $20,000 for first-time grantees.
Total awarded
$126.8M
Typical grant
$100K
Grantees
58
Grants
131
Years
2020–2024
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Support |
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Museum of Modern Art
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$48.7M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Council on Foreign Relations INC
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$21.0M | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$9.3M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Skidmore College
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$8.7M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $7.5M | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$5.6M | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
Oceana INC
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$4.6M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
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$3.5M | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | NY | |
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$2.5M | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | NY | |
| C Carver Center | $2.0M | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | TX | |
Hospital for Special Surgery Fund INC
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$2.0M | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | NY | |
Greenwich Hospital
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$1.1M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CT | |
| S Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | $1.1M | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| H Hospital for Special Surgery Foundation | $1.0M | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| A American Enterprise Institute | $750K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| T The Clark Institute | $700K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts INC
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$675K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Rye Country Day School
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$510K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
| 1 1898 Foundation INC | $500K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Blythedale Childrens Hospital
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$500K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Cato Institute
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$500K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | DC | |
Port Chester Carver Center INC
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$500K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | NY | |
| H Harvard Business School | $455K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Readworks INC
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$300K | 2 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | NY | |
| E Eagle Hill School | $300K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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$275K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$275K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
| T The New York Public Library | $250K | 3 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Museum of the American Revolution
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$250K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | PA | |
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$250K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | NY | |
Friends of Rye Town Park INC
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$200K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Rye Free Reading Room
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$200K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$150K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | CT | |
| N New York Public Library the | $100K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
| N New York Public Library | $100K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| R Readworksorg | $100K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| C Chief's Memorial Campership Fund INC | $75K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | — | — |
The Jewish Museum
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$50K | 3 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
The Adirondack Forty-Sixers INC
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$50K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | NY | |
New York Hall of Science
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$30K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $28K | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
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$25K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$20K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | NY | |
National Dance Institute INC
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$18K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
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$15K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | NY | |
| W Williams College Museum of Art | $15K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $10K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| A American - Scandanavian Foundation | $10K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| T The Claremont Institute | $10K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
School of American Ballet INC
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$5K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | NY | |
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$5K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | FL | |
| F Fortune Society | $4K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
The Writing Revolution INC
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$2K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | NY | |
| S Street Squash INC | $2K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| A Aaron Matthew Sids Research Guild | $1K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| R Rye Fire Department | $750 | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| R Rye Police Association INC | $500 | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| A American Stroke Association | $500 | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
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