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Judy & Warren Tenney Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$121k
Granted FY2022
46
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Judy & Warren Tenney Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Judy & Warren Tenney Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 35 organizations, $121k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

47
’17
37
’18
36
’19
25
’20
24
’21
35
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Philanthropy$3.4MArts & Culture$224kHealth$138kEducation$120kReligion$32kHuman Services$28kInternational$28kCrime & Legal$27kOther$0
02FY2022 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k43 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION$51,000
WNETORG$12,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$7,500
NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Smith College$5,000
CONGREGATION EMANUEL OF WESTCHESTER$4,515
Westchester Children's Association$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Doctors Without Borders$1,000
NY Public Library$1,000
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET$1,000
THE 92ND STREET Y$500
New York City Ballet$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%At Home on the Sound: $500 → 9%At Home on the Sound: $500 → 9%At Home on the Sound: $430 → 9%Sprye: $500 → 9%Sprye: $500 → 9%Sprye: $500 → 9%Sprye: $500 → 9%Sprye: $500 → 9%Sprye: $500 → 9%United Way of Westchester & Putnam: $500 → 9%Westchester Children's Association: $5k → 9%Westchester Children's Association: $3k → 9%Westchester Children's Association: $2k → 9%Westchester Children's Association: $2k → 9%Westchester Children's Association: $500 → 9%SAFE HORIZON: $2k → 17%Safe Horizon: $1k → 17%Safe Horizon: $500 → 17%Safe Horizon: $500 → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $500 → 17%Room to Grow: $5k → 17%Fund for the Aged Inc: $500 → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $200 → 17%The Innocence Project: $2k → 17%Harlem Children's Zone: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$908k · 52 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2022, 21 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
46

Total granted

$908k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+32%

Still filing today

81%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $312k · revenue +39%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $33k · revenue +256%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • WI
    WA Institute for the Near East Policy
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BC
    BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +88%
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
9
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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10
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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11
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr20%18%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr15%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr20%2%20–35yr14%91%35–55yr15%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/88
the rest of the field
11%
4,666/42,727

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 115 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
58/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $3,128,073 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $311,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC+3 more — $22,160 · PhilanthropyWNETORG — $72,000 · OtherWNETORGIndividual grant recipient — $42,500 · OtherIndividua…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $38,000 · OtherPLANNED P…NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $35,900 · OtherNY HISTOR…CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF WESTCHESTER — $28,805 · OtherCONGREGAT…Smith College — $20,000 · OtherSmith Col…The Frick Collection — $11,800 · Other+53 more — $101,230 · Other+53 moreJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $90,000 · Health+6 more — $8,750 · HealthNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $31,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $23,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $5,500 · Arts & CultureWAMC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $4,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $3,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $4,110 · Arts & CultureBARD COLLEGE — $33,000 · EducationNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $11,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationCornell University — $5,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College — $5,000 · Education+8 more — $12,000 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC — $13,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $4,000 · International+1 more — $500 · InternationalWESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC — $11,500 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesSPRYE INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesAT HOME ON THE SOUND INC — $1,430 · Human Services+4 more — $1,400 · Human Services
Philanthropy$3,461,733Other$350,235Health$98,750Arts & Culture$88,610Education$76,000International$33,000Human Services$31,330

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $3,128,073 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $311,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC — $90,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $21,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $11,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET — $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMobilization for Justice Inc — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAMC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAIN IDEA INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRYE INC — $3,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOHAWK HUDSON LAND CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC ART FUND INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAT HOME ON THE SOUND INC — $1,430 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Strong Foundation of …The Toby and Nataly R…The V & L Marx Founda…Oppenheim Family Fund…The Glickenhaus Found…The Netter Foundation…The Dunn Family Found…Gladstein Family Foun…The Jatoma Charitable…The Goldstone Fund Inc
Jewish Communal FundNY28.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Strong Foundation of New York · The Toby and Nataly Ritter Family Foundation · The V & L Marx Foundation · Oppenheim Family Fund Inc · The Glickenhaus Foundation · The Netter Foundation Inc · The Dunn Family Foundation · Gladstein Family Foundation Inc · The Jatoma Charitable Foundation · The Goldstone Fund Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Judy & Warren Tenney Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Judy & Warren Tenney Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Judy & Warren Tenney Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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