· Private foundation
Tau Foundation Inc
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 $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO INC | $92,000 |
| INDSPIRE | $25,000 |
| THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE STOP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE | $5,000 |
| FIRST NARAYEVER CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| PAUL PENNA DOWNTOWN JEWISH | $5,000 |
| VE'AHAVTA | $5,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER | $5,000 |
| HOMES FIRST | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 6% of Tau Foundation Inc’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.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO INC5× · 2019–2024 · $272k · revenue +222%
- TWTHE WRITER'S HOUSE2× · 2021–2022 · $65k
- USUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNHCR2× · 2017–2018 · $23k
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +47%- UWUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -42%
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.
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To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
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To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 17 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OF GREATER TORONTO INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Writers Center ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL ↗
- Who funds HOMES FIRST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tau Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tau Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Writers Center: 6% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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