Minnesota · Private foundation
Tankenoff Families Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $887k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 78
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Tankenoff Families Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 68 | $709k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $658k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 78 | $759k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $506k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $759k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $522k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Israel | $475,884 | 6 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas | $460,000 | 6 | 4% |
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Herzl Camp Association Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Minnesota Hillel | $107,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Secure Community Network Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 0% |
| MinnPost | $77,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $72,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Land Bank Twin Cities Inc | $64,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Northeast Minneapolis Arts Assoc | $63,950 | 6 | 4% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($960k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tankenoff Families Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The K Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · Russell T Lund Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Tankenoff Families Foundation
- How much does Tankenoff Families Foundation give?
- Tankenoff Families Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $886,735 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tankenoff Families Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Religion (16%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Tankenoff Families Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Temple Israel ($476k), Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas ($460k), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($300k).
- Does Tankenoff Families Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tankenoff Families 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 Tankenoff Families Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Tankenoff Families Foundation based?
- Tankenoff Families Foundation is based in MN.
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