Nina W Werblow Charitable Trust
New York, NY · EIN 13-6742999. Reported 308 grants totalling $6,023,500 to 100 recipients across tax years 2020-2025. 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. Nina W Werblow Charitable Trust 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 $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $250,000. 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | New York, NY | $1,050,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Urban Dove | Long Island City, NY | $415,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Museum of Modern Art | New York, NY | $411,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | New York, NY | $364,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Central Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $330,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Chabad of Bedford | Bedford Hills, NY | $264,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Smithsonian Archives of American Art | Washington, DC | $213,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Film at Lincoln Center | New York, NY | $205,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Lincoln Center Theatre | New York, NY | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | New York, NY | $135,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | New York, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mount Sinai Medical Center | New York, NY | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| New York Cares | New York, NY | $120,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | $118,500 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| New York University (school of Law) | New York, NY | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northern Westchester Hospital | Mt Kisco, NY | $100,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Mama Foundation for the Arts Inc | New York, NY | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Robin Hood Foundation | New York, NY | $92,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| New 42ND Street | New York, NY | $86,500 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| The Eye Cancer Foundation | New York, NY | $75,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Jewish Child Care Association | New York, NY | $73,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | The Bronx, NY | $72,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| White Plains Hospital Center | White Plains, NY | $62,500 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Fordham Law School | New York, NY | $60,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| David Lynch Foundation | Fairfield, IA | $55,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| New York University (school of Law) Schol | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $45,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Csc Repertory Ltd | New York, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fordham University | Bronx, NY | $45,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Uja Federation of New York | New York, NY | $43,500 | 7 | 6 | 2025 |
| Feeding Westchester | Elmsford, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| International Center of Photography | New York, NY | $40,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Columbia Law School | New York, NY | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art | New York, NY | $37,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Vivian Beaumont Theatre Inc | New York, NY | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Animal Medical Center | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind | Yorktown Heights, NY | $30,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| The Virtue Foundation | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Visiting Nurse Service of New York | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York University (school of Law) Weinf | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Warm Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Columbia University Medical Center | New York, NY | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | New York, NY | $22,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Literacy Partners | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Montefiore Medical Center | Bronx, NY | $17,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Adventura Turnberry Jewish Center | Aventura, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Open Door Foundation | Ossining, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Parkinson's Unity Walk | Kingston, NJ | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| WNET Book Depository | New York, NY | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Lifting Up Westchester | White Plains, NY | $13,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Arc Westchester | Hawthrone, NY | $13,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation | New York, NY | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jewish Board of Family & Children Services Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Natural Resource Defense Council | New York, NY | $10,000 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Nyu Daily Gift Account | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bedford Playhouse Inc | Bedford, NY | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Institute on Religion and Public Life | New York, NY | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Foundation for Contemporary Arts | New York, NY | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rippowam Cisqua School | Bedford, NY | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Windward School | White Plains, NY | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Adl | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Anti-Defamation League Dba Adl | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emunah of America | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study | New York, NY | $5,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Park Avenue Armory | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | Montgomery, AL | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| White Plains Hospital Foundation | White Plains, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grand Central Atelier Inc | Long Island City, NY | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| New York Botanical Garden | Bronx, NY | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| St Thomas Church in the City & County of Ny | New York, NY | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United States Holocaust Museum | Washington, DC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| World Wildlife Fund | Washington, DC | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Gilda's Club Westchester | White Plains, NY | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| American Ballet Theatre | New York, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Jacob Burns Film Center Inc | Pleasantville, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York City Ballet Inc | New York, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| New York Philarmonic | New York, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| New York Public Library | New York, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Public Art Fund Inc | New York, NY | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Seventh Regiment Armory | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Workers Circle | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | New York, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nyu Medical Center | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Soul Ryeders | Rye, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Morningside Institute | New York, NY | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund | Arlington, VA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 42ND Street Theatre | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bottom Line | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Food Bank of Nyc | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the High Line | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Metropolitan Opera | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New Museum | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Museum | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Thirteenwnet | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
70 of 100 (70%) received money in more than one year over the 6 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 82%, across 5 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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.
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
UNRESTRICTED CHARITABLE PURPOSES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 205 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 57 | $972,000 | $7,500 |
| 2021 | 59 | $973,000 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 58 | $973,500 | $7,500 |
| 2023 | 44 | $1,203,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 43 | $953,000 | $10,000 |
| 2025 | 47 | $949,000 | $10,000 |
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
95% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- 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 Nina W Werblow Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2020-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Co Ee Llp 375 Park Ave 2100, New York, NY, 10152. 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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