The Walter Reade Foundation Inc
New York, NY · EIN 21-6014506. Reported 87 grants totalling $137,010 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Walter Reade Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $750. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $17,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | Los Angeles, CA | $39,550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barnard College | New York, NY | $15,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food Education Fund | New York, NY | $11,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brentwood School | Los Angeles, CA | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Solebury School | New Hope, PA | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cma Education Foundation (co Connecticut Maritime Association Inc) | Stamford, CT | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Gifford's Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence | San Francisco, CA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Vocational Service | Los Angeles, CA | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brooklyn Botanical Garden | Brooklyn, NY | $2,850 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Concordia Chamber Players | New Hope, PA | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America | New York, NY | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Careers Though Culinary Arts Program | New York, NY | $2,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | $2,040 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA Inc | New York, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Phase One Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Figure Skating in Harlem | New York, NY | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Thirteen (wnet) | New York, NY | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | New York, NY | $1,250 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $1,020 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund | Brooklyn, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Billy Jean King Leadership | Randolph, NJ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City Harvest | Brooklyn, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | Franklin, TN | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | Rye Brook, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | New York, NY | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nmss Nyc Nat'l Multiple Sclerosis Society | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Women's Alzheimer's Movement | Los Angeles, CA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| A Second U Foundation | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Colorado Trial Lawyers Care | Denver, CO | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Americus, GA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hias -- Afghan Refugees | Silver Spring, MD | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hospice of the Fisher Home | Amherst, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Audubon Society | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Temple Emanu-El | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Children's Brain Tumor Foundation | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wnyc | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trident Swim Foundation | New York, NY | $400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | Beverly Hills, CA | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Amber Waves | Amagansett, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
22 of 44 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 68%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters
ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN ACHIEVING FULL POTENTIAL - Food Education Fund
CULINARY ARTS, HOSPITALITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, STUDENT PREPARATION - World Central Kitchen Inc
DISASTER RELIEF, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, FEE MEALS - Brentwood School
PROVIDES FUNDS FOR ADDITIONAL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES - Careers Though Culinary Arts Program
JOB TRAINING, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND YOUTH SERVICES - Jewish Vocational Service
JOB TRAINING, MENTORING AND EDUCATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 54 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $28,090 | $500 |
| 2022 | 27 | $36,210 | $600 |
| 2023 | 14 | $33,110 | $900 |
| 2024 | 24 | $39,600 | $1,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 45% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $750. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Walter Reade Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Norton Rose 1301 Ave of Americas, New York, NY, 10019. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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