· Private foundation
Morris & Charlotte Tanenbaum Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of Morris & Charlotte Tanenbaum Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Morris & Charlotte Tanenbaum Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $145k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NJ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC | $13,000 |
| DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC | $5,000 |
| PROJECT 2 HEAL | $5,000 |
| BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| NJIT | $4,000 |
| PUSH TO WALK NJ | $3,500 |
| SMALL STEPS IN SPEECH | $3,500 |
| WILLING WARRIORS | $3,500 |
| ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NY | $3,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK | $3,000 |
| HOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OFOVERLOOK FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $223k · revenue +121%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $157k · revenue +51%- DODUTCHESS OUTREACH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWBURGH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +67%
Camp For All Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +476%- LFLIGHTHOUSE FOR HOPEone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Small Steps in Speech. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
47 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. 47 of the 65 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Project 2 Heal ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds SMALL STEPS IN SPEECH ↗
- Who funds Serve Our Willing Warriors ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FLOATS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds IOLA Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Children of New York ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEPING OUR PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW YORK CITY AND WESTCHERSTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Morris & Charlotte Tanenbaum Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
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.
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