· Private foundation
Tenacre Foundation
TENACRE'S PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE IS PROVIDING INTERRELATED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MINISTRIES, WITH THE PRINCIPAL MINISTRY BEING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NURSING SERVICES.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $447k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+17 grants · $28M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL FUND FOR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NURSING | $7,000,000 |
| TEACH FOR ALL | $6,266,000 |
| NATIONAL FUND FOR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NURSING | $3,891,668 |
| ADVENTURE UNLIMITED | $1,400,955 |
| BERKELEY HALL SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,300,000 |
| KIPP TEAM AND FAMILY SCHOOLS | $1,200,000 |
| THE CAMPERSHIP FUND | $1,000,000 |
| CEDARS CAMPS | $991,668 |
| THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION EXTENDED SERVICES | $938,664 |
| CEDARS CAMPS | $908,372 |
| ADVENTURE UNLIMITED | $656,500 |
| E3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE | $632,500 |
| E3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE | $477,019 |
| ISLES INC | $375,000 |
| AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $329,500 |
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, $16.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
158 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 107 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- TFTEACH FOR ALL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35M · revenue +55%
LONGYEAR FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2023 · $21M · revenue +22%- TCThe Cedars Camps Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $14M · revenue +19% · 67% of their budget
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FUND FOR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NURSINGone grant, 2021 · $15M
- KNKIPP NEW JERSEYone grant, 2021 · $10M
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED DISCOVERY BOUNDone grant, 2021 · $2.3M
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transcend Inc and the most unlike its peers is Catalyst for Peace. 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 28 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) — 2% 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.
180 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. 180 of the 333 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL FUND FOR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NURSING ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Branch School Inc ↗
- Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds E3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WINIFRED STUART MANKOWSKI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds Common Ground Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMMONLIT INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP TEAM AND FAMILY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HALL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
- Who funds MERIT AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Leaves Inc ↗
- Who funds ARDEN WOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Fern Lodge Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds Jewel Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION EXTENDED SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR BANGLADESH ↗
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: The Isabel Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · FirstBank Charitable Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · The James Kerney Foundation · The Trustees of Princeton University
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 Tenacre Foundation 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.
- Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
- Princeton Nursery School — 4% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- We Make Autism at Work Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trio New College Network Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
- Booksmiles a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Zearn — 0% of income from government
- Kipp Team and Family Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.