Organizations funded by BWJF
Environment
Amigos of Costa Rica
Amigos of Costa Rica contributes to the well-being of Costa Rica by connecting donors’ values and resources with vetted non-profit solutions. There is significant focus on natural resource conservation and protection
Funding year(s): 2023
ClientEarth US
ClientEarth uses the power of law to bring about systemic change that protects the earth for – and with – its inhabitants. Their primary pillars include ending pollution, defending wildlife and habitats, protecting forests, strengthening the rule of law, and tackling climate change.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Montana Land Reliance
The Montana Land Reliance (MLR) mission is to perpetuate a lifestyle and economy that relies on responsibly managed private land and to protect open spaces that will nourish the spirit of future generations. To achieve this, the MLR partners with private landowners to protect agricultural lands, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space across Montana.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Central Park Conservancy
To preserve and celebrate Central Park as a sanctuary from the pace and pressures of city life, enhancing the enjoyment and wellbeing of all. The CPC makes sure it remains clean, beautiful, free and open to all, every day. They tend to all details of the Park’s maintenance and restoration, while seeking innovative ways to nurture and manage a living masterpiece that feels welcoming to our 42 million visitors each year.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
nourish.NJ/Community Soup Kitchen of Morristown
nourish.NJ creates lasting solutions to the problems of hunger, homelessness and poverty. They offer food, housing, work readiness, medical, social and educational services 365 days a year in a warm, safe and caring environment, free of charge, no questions asked.
Funding year(s): 2023 - present
Matthew Friedman Memorial Foundation
The Foundation is dedicated to honoring the memory of Matthew Friedman by supporting brain research, local high school scholarships, and local volunteer Emergency Medical Services.
Funding year(s): 2023 - present
10,000 Brains Neuro AI
The 10,000 Brains Project is dedicated to advancing targeted therapies for the millions of people affected by neurodegenerative diseases worldwide. By working across neurodegenerative diseases and harnessing the full potential of innovative tools and technologies, they aim to accelerate breakthroughs in earlier detection and more personalized care.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Doe Fund
The Doe Fund delivers innovative programs that empower people to overcome homelessness, addiction, and justice involvement. It also offers permanent affordable and supportive housing, providing safe, stable homes for low-income individuals and families with on-site services for those who have experienced homelessness or live with serious health conditions.
Funding year(s): 2024
Natural Resource Defense Council
The NRDC works to safeguard the earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. They combine the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of some 700 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Underwater Hypoxic Blackout Foundation (Build a Reef)
The Underwater Hypoxic Blackout Prevention Foundation seeks to increase awareness and interest in the dangers of Underwater Hypoxic Blackout (UHB) and foster prevention measures at every level and in every sector related to water safety, among people as well as public, private, and non-profit organizations throughout the US and the world
Funding year(s): 2025
Peregrine Fund
The mission of The Peregrine Fund is to conserve birds of prey worldwide. It achieves this by using science to prevent extinctions, protect critical habitats, address threats like pollution and habitat loss, and educate the public. The organization's ultimate vision is for raptor populations and their ecosystems to thrive.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Public Health
Palm Beach Police & Fire Foundation
The mission of the Palm Beach Police & Fire Foundation is to support first responders and strengthen public safety in the Town of Palm Beach by providing funding for programs, equipment, and education. The foundation aims to help first responders and their families and enhance the community's peace of mind.
Funding year(s): 2025
NYU Langone
NYU Langone Health's mission is to compassionately deliver the best possible outcomes by focusing on three core areas: caring, teaching, and discovering. This mission applies to both patient care and the well-being of its staff within the health system. The health system also emphasizes values like performance, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence (PRIDE) in all its endeavors.
Funding year(s): 2025
Center at 353
The Center’s mission is to provide exceptional mental health services to our community through evidence-based clinical practice and education. Our vision is a community where everyone has the mental health resources and support needed to achieve wellbeing.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Food Bank for NYC
The mission of Food Bank for NYC is to "empower every New Yorker to achieve food security for good". It works to end food poverty in NYC by leveraging its network of partners and volunteers to provide resources, support, and expertise across the five boroughs. The organization accomplishes this through food distribution, food rescue, financial empowerment, nutrition education, and advocacy to address the root causes of hunger.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Urban Youth Impact
Urban Youth Impact's mission is to love, equip, and empower inner-city youth to fulfill their God-given purpose. The organization works to help youth rise out of disadvantage by providing programs that foster spiritual development, career readiness, and academic success.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
The Broad Institute
The mission of the Broad Institute is to understand the roots of disease and close the gap between biological insights and patient impact. It seeks to invent and openly share cutting-edge technologies and tools to accelerate biomedical discoveries and improve human health.
Funding year(s): 2025
Bronxville Community Fund
The mission of the Bronxville Community Fund is to provide funding and support to local agencies and non-profit groups that serve the health, education, and welfare needs of residents in Bronxville, Eastchester, and Tuckahoe. It aims to ensure community members have access to resources like food, education, and health and wellness programs throughout their lives, and it works to help the community become more connected and philanthropic.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Lupus Research Alliance
The LRA is driven to free the world of lupus through the power of science. They work to transform the lives of those affected by the disease by pioneering innovation, expanding knowledge, and attracting diverse scientific talent to advance treatments, prevention, and ultimately a cure. To achieve this mission, they actively manage grants and collaborate with investigators to guide the research process.
Funding year(s): 2023 - Present
Success Academy Charter Schools
The dual mission of Success Academy Charter Schools is to create exceptional public schools that prepare children from all backgrounds with the subject mastery and skills to succeed in college and life and to change the public policies that prevent children from having access to free, high-quality public school education.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Palm Beach County Food Bank
The Palm Beach County Food Bank mission is to nourish neighbors, improve lives, and alleviate hunger in Palm Beach County, with a vision that prioritizes the needs of the hungry and aims to make them more self-sufficient. They achieve this by improving lives "one meal at a time" and strengthening individuals and families with nutritious food.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Tunnel to Towers
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation's mission is to support America's heroes, including military members, first responders, and their families, by providing mortgage-free homes for catastrophically injured veterans and families of fallen first responders
Funding year(s): 2025
Big Brothers Big Sisters
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters is to "create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth". This mission focuses on building trust and strong relationships to help children achieve educational success, higher aspirations, and better relationships.
Funding year(s): 2025
Arm in Arm
The mission of the non-profit Arm in Arm is to ensure that everyone has access to basic needs like food and shelter, to help community members maintain their livelihood, and to work with neighbors to build lasting stability. They achieve this through programs that prevent hunger and homelessness, provide workforce development, and partner with local agencies to meet client needs, all while aiming to empower individuals to thrive long-term.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Place of Hope
Place of Hope's mission is to provide a stable, loving, and faith-based environment for children, youth, and families in crisis, helping them to find healing, restoration, and hope for a successful future. It aims to break cycles of abuse, neglect, homelessness, and human trafficking by offering services such as family-style foster care, transitional housing, and support for human trafficking survivors and single mothers.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
OrthoNations
OrthoNations' mission is to bridge the gap in orthopedic care globally by connecting orthopedic surgeons worldwide to provide education, training, and equipment to enhance their skills. The organization facilitates this through programs where international surgeons can train in the United States, receive educational materials, and participate in surgical missions to improve orthopedic care in their home countries.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Eastchester Ambulance Corp
The mission of the Eastchester Volunteer Ambulance Corps (EVAC) is to provide quality, compassionate, cost-effective, and expeditious pre-hospital emergency medical care to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. EVAC aims to deliver advanced life support (ALS) services that meet or exceed national pre-hospital emergency medical services standards.
Funding year(s): 2025
International Rescue Committee
The IRC helps people affected by humanitarian crises to recover and rebuild their lives. Assisting across 40+ countries and provide resettlement, asylum, and integration services in communities. They support crisis in five areas of their lives: ensuring safety from harm, improving health, increasing access to education, improving economic well-being, and ensuring people have the power to influence decisions that affect their lives.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
UNICEF USA (Impact Fund for Children)
UNICEF USA’s mission is to relentlessly pursue a more equitable world for every child. UNICEF USA advances the global mission of UNICEF by rallying the American public to support the world’s most vulnerable children. UNICEF is working to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths, and promote the health and development of all children.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
The Johnson Center for Child Health and Development
The mission of The Johnson Center for Child Health and Development is to advance the understanding of childhood development through clinical care, research, community outreach, and education. They offer diagnostic services, healthcare services, behavioral therapy, educational assessments, feeding therapy, counseling, family support, community outreach and education, and a research program to answer questions related to developmental disorders.
Funding year(s): 2023 - present
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
The mission of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide all people with CF the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the CF community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Funding year(s): 2024
Children’s Home Society of NJ
The Children's Home Society of New Jersey helps at-risk infants, children, youth, and families achieve their potential. They protect abused or neglected infants and children, strengthen families, and strive for stable, permanent, and loving homes by offering a variety of successful and culturally sensitive services.
Funding year(s): 2023 - Present
Education
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is among the world’s most trusted sources of management education and thought leadership. It is a dynamic ecosystem of research, learning, and entrepreneurship that reinforces itself as the School and its faculty interact with new organizations, practitioners, scholars, and global leaders.
Funding year(s): 2023 - Present
Pioneer Works Art Foundation
Pioneer Works is an artist and scientist-led cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn that fosters innovative thinking through the visual and performing arts, technology, music, and science. They provide visual and performing artists, musicians, scientists, technologists, community organizers, and educators the resources and platform they need to expand their practices.
Funding year(s): 2025
Episcopal High School
The mission of the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia is to prepare students for principled lives of leadership and service through intellectual and moral courage. This involves developing discerning individuals with a strong sense of character, integrity, and the ability to act ethically in an increasingly connected world.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation was established in 1946 by Francis Cardinal Spellman to honor the legacy of Alfred Emanuel Smith, New York’s most renowned Catholic governor and the first Roman Catholic to run for President of the United States on a major party ticket. Today, the Foundation continues the good work of Alfred E. Smith by providing financial support to organizations that serve New York’s most vulnerable children.
Funding year(s): 2025
Friends of Foundation Academy
The Friends of Foundation Academies supports, enhances, and promotes the work of Foundation Academies in Trenton, NJ (K-12 free public charter schools) by raising funds and delivering services, programs, acquisitions, and partnerships that equitably serve the best interests of our school community. They seek to equip and empower their scholars to excel in learning and lead purpose-filled lives.
Funding year(s): 2024
Battle of the Atlantic Museum
This landmark project center around a new purpose-built museum in Birkenhead on the banks of the iconic River Mersey with breathtaking views of the Liverpool skyline. The new museum forms the cornerstone of a multi- site visitor experience that includes the internationally renowned Western Approaches Command HQ—the actual underground bunker from which the Allied victory was orchestrated.
Funding year(s): 2025
Sunflower Network
The Sunflower Network raises money to provide necessary supplies and assistance to the people of Ukraine.
Funding year(s): 2025
Eastern College Athletics Conference
The Eastern College Athletics Conference (ECAC) mission is to initiate and provide intercollegiate athletics opportunities for student-athletes while promoting and developing leadership and excellence. It aims to support the programs and philosophies of its member institutions, enhance participation, and maintain equitable opportunities for all student-athletes. The ECAC also develops and implements programs and services to promote its membership's student-athletes, coaches, and administrators.
Funding year(s): 2025
Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club
The mission of the Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club is to provide all youth in the greater Roaring Fork Valley with the opportunity to excel as athletes and as people through winter sports. It focuses on coaching and inspiring kids, promoting a community of passion and grit, and making winter sports accessible to local youth.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Harvard College
College in Cambridge, MA providing undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains. The mission of the College is to educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society through a commitment to the transformative power of a liberal arts and sciences education.
Funding year(s): 2023 - Present
Turning Point USA
Turning Point USA's mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government. Turning Point USA believes that every young person can be enlightened to true free-market values.
Funding year(s): 2025
Buffalo State College Foundation
The mission of the Buffalo State College Foundation is to advance the welfare and development of the State University of New York at Buffalo State University (the University) and to support its goals of excellence in teaching and scholarship, cultural enrichment and service. The Foundation furthers its mission by fostering private sector participation in the University's endeavors, particularly in the areas of philanthropy and fundraising, and by providing various support services to the University.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Yonkers Partners in Education
Yonkers Partners in Education (YPIE) partners with students to ensure they are ready for, enroll in, and complete college. They confront the challenges of low-income, urban school districts by providing families with equitable access to the critical tools and services necessary for college success.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Deerfield Academy
Deerfield Academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility. Through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, extensive co-curricular program, and supportive residential environment, Deerfield encourages each student to develop an inquisitive and creative mind, sound body, and strong moral character.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Arts & Culture
Music Associates of Aspen
The Aspen Music Festival & School brings together the finest music students, artist faculty and performers to create transformative educational experiences within a community of artistic integrity and innovation. The Aspen Music Festival and School is regarded as one of the top classical music festivals in the United States, noted both for its concert programming and its musical training of mostly young-adult music students.
Funding year(s): 2024 - Present
Hopewell Valley Arts Council
The Hopewell Valley Arts Council is dedicated to increasing art awareness and appreciation across the greater Hopewell Valley. They celebrate “art in the everyday” by encouraging creative exploration, artistic expression, and a deeper appreciation for the beauty in ordinary life. Through community collaborations, events, and art-based initiatives, the council highlights local talent and enriches the area’s cultural landscape.
Funding year(s): 2025
The Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association mission statement is "to preserve, restore, and manage the estate of George Washington to the highest standards and to educate visitors and people throughout the world about the life and legacies of George Washington, so that his example of character and leadership will continue to inform and inspire future generations.
Funding year(s): 2024
Studio Incamminati
Studio Incamminati exists to meet the expressed needs of students eager to learn the aesthetic and philosophical techniques and principles of humanist realism. Modeled on the traditional Italian accademia and French atelier, Studio Incamminati provides a dynamic teaching program to produce highly skilled artists who can call upon their abilities to create art with depth of purpose.
Funding year(s): 2025
Grounds for Sculpture
Ground for Sculpture’s mission is to promote an understanding and appreciation of contemporary sculpture for all people, which it strives to fulfill by operating a 42-acre sculpture park, major galleries, and a year round multi-disciplinary arts education program
Funding year(s): 2024
International
Fields in Trust
Fields in Trust's mission is to champion and support parks and green spaces by protecting them in perpetuity for people and planet. The charity works to ensure these spaces are protected from development so they can be enjoyed now and by future generations. They believe everyone should have access to a green space within a 10-minute walk of their home.
Funding year(s): 2025
Sports & Recreation
World Cup Dream Foundation
The World Cup Dream Foundation's mission is to further the growth and development of the nation's best athletes by helping them realize their athletic goals and dreams through career financial support and mentorship. The foundation provides a pipeline of support to help athletes overcome financial barriers at all stages of their careers, from developing at the U16 level to competing at the World Cup.
Funding year(s): 2025
