New York · Private foundation
Tarandi Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
81% of Tarandi Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $69,653
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Tarandi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 7 | $16k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $43k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $11k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $9k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $27k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $6k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $19k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $5k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oswego University Foundation Inc | $27,455 | 2 | 0% |
| Fulton Sunrise Rotary Club | $15,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Oswego Bookmobile Inc | $9,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Oswego Rotary Foundation Inc | $6,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Donorschooseorg | $4,462 | 5 | 0% |
| Rotary Club of Oswego | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Manlius Pebble Hill School Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Human Concerns Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Buccaneer Boostersinc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Oswego Laker Swim Club Corporation | $100 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.
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 James V Tesoriero Charitable Fund · Richard S Shineman Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Tarandi Foundation
- How much does Tarandi Foundation give?
- Tarandi Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $85,903 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tarandi Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (97%), Community Improvement (3%), Public Benefit (0%).
- Who are Tarandi Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oswego University Foundation Inc ($27k), Fulton Sunrise Rotary Club ($15k), Oswego Bookmobile Inc ($9k).
- Does Tarandi Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tarandi Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tarandi Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James V Tesoriero Charitable Fund, Richard S Shineman Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Tarandi Foundation based?
- Tarandi Foundation is based in NY.
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