· Private foundation
Lisa and Steven Tananbaum Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VASSAR COLLAGE | $1,160,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $1,000,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $500,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $500,000 |
| CHABAD ON CAMPUS DUTCHESS INC | $250,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $145,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $100,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $50,000 |
| THE CHICK MISSION INC | $30,000 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| THE SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| THE PALM BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $25,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 42% of Lisa and Steven Tananbaum Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +101%- VCVASSAR COLLEGE2× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +19%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC2× · 2017–2018 · $820k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.8M · revenue +34%
- CFCouncil For Foreign Realtionone grant, 2021 · $1.2M
- COCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -3%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
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…
How this is measured
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHICK MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAY YES TO EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Benjamin and Susan Winter Foundation · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lisa and Steven Tananbaum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisa and Steven Tananbaum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Southern Oregon University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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