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Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2021
21
Grants FY2021
21
Organizations funded FY2021
43%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$100
Largest grant, FY2021
$44,044
Organizations funded a year
18 to 21
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 43% of the organizations Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202121$54k43%
FY202018$112kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$63kReligion$15kHuman Services$10kHealth$2kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$350Environment$300Food & Nutrition$217Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Or Atid Conservative Jewish Association$14,6122n/a
Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc$10,00020%
Oneinforty$9001n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$80020%
Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc$50020%
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc$25020%
Hias Inc$20020%
The Parmenter Foundation Inc$20020%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$11710%
West End House Inc$10010%
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All grantees of Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Or Atid Conservative Jewish Association$14,6122n/a
Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc$10,00020%
Oneinforty$9001n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$80020%
Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc$50020%
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc$25020%
Hias Inc$20020%
The Parmenter Foundation Inc$20020%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$11710%
West End House Inc$10010%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$10010%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$10010%
Children's Hospital Corporation$10010%
Boston Medical Center Corporation$5010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArts for Learning Massachusetts Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSudbury Valley Trustees Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Parmenter Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $117 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest End House Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation

How much does Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation give?
Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $53,693 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Religion (9%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Or Atid Conservative Jewish Association ($15k), Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc ($10k), Oneinforty ($900).
Does Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation based?
Michael & Karen Tichnor Family Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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