Walentas Foundation
ActivePrivate FoundationPhilanthropy & VoluntarismFunds Individuals
Brooklyn, NY
EIN (Tax ID): 45-5331864
About Walentas Foundation
Walentas Foundation Ltd shows a highly focused philanthropic interest in ALS-related work, directing a single large grant to Target ALS Foundation. The foundation appears to prioritize funding organizations working on neurodegenerative disease research, advocacy, and community impact rather than broad or diversified grantmaking. Its giving is distinctive for concentrating substantial resources into a targeted medical research/advocacy organization.
Focus Areas
ALS research funding (biomedical and translational research)ALS patient advocacy and community supportFunding for disease-focused nonprofit operations and program capacity
Who They Fund
local communitiescommunity-based nonprofitscivic organizationsarts organizationsindividual civic prize recipients
Giving Approach
Concentrated, large one-time grantmaking to a single grantee — high-dollar support focused on a specific organization or cause rather than many small or diversified grants.
About Walentas Foundation
Walentas Foundation Ltd’s most distinctive recent grant is $505,000 to Target Als Foundation Inc, which points to a concentrated interest in ALS-related work rather than broad, evenly spread philanthropy. The foundation’s recent giving shows a pattern of substantial awards to individuals and organizations tied to community, civic, arts, education, and neighborhood improvement in New York. Among the named grantees are The New Shul, New City Parks Inc, The Tank Ltd, and Habitat for Humanity-New York Inc, alongside individual recipients such as Gregory Purnell and Diana Imbert. That mix suggests a funder comfortable supporting both nonprofit institutions and named individuals through the same grantmaking stream. The presence of repeated $100,000 awards in the 2025 list also shows that the foundation uses large, deliberate grants rather than many small awards. Its portfolio includes both operating nonprofits and civic or community-oriented projects, with some support extending into arts and culture. The overall picture is of a private foundation with a focused set of priorities and sizable commitments to selected recipients.
What Walentas Foundation Funds
A central theme in the foundation’s giving is ALS-related work. In 2025, it awarded $505,000 to Target Als Foundation Inc, the clearest signal of its interest in disease-focused nonprofit work. Beyond that, the grant list shows sustained support for community and civic organizations in New York City. The New Shul received $100,000, while New City Parks Inc and North Brooklyn Parks Alliance each received $25,000, indicating support for neighborhood-based civic and public-space efforts. Arts and culture also appear in the mix: Colt Coeur Adrienne Campbell-holt received $25,000. Education-related support is present as well, including $35,000 to Counseling in Schools Inc and $25,000 to Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn. The foundation’s grant record therefore combines a major medical-research-adjacent priority with local civic, cultural, and school-based funding.
How Walentas Foundation Gives
The 2025 grant list is built around large, discrete awards. The biggest recent grant was $505,000, followed by a cluster of $100,000 grants and many awards at $25,000. Walentas Foundation Ltd is a private foundation, and the data show that it funds both organizations and individuals. Its recent recipient list includes repeat use of the same grant year rather than a visible multi-year relationship in the provided grants, so the pattern is better described as concentrated one-year giving than a clearly recurring sequence. The foundation also makes grants to named people as well as nonprofits, which is unusual among private foundations and shapes its grant pattern.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2.5M
Total Assets
$0
Total Revenue
$3.4M
Total Expenses
$3.4M
Geographic Reach
Local15 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
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