New Jersey · Private foundation
Tenacre Foundation
TENACRE'S PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE IS PROVIDING INTERRELATED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MINISTRIES, WITH THE PRINCIPAL MINISTRY BEING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NURSING SERVICES. 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.
- $31M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 108
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $64,383
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 216
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $365M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Tenacre Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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 | 57 | $31M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 108 | $51M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 153 | $96M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 216 | $110M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 132 | $101M | 98% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $26M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Fund for Christian Science Nursing | $52,224,749 | 4 | 46% |
| Teach for All Inc | $35,027,208 | 5 | 20% |
| First Church of Christ Scientist | $30,303,050 | 4 | n/a |
| Longyear Foundation | $21,000,980 | 3 | 12% |
| Peace Haven Association Inc | $14,622,552 | 5 | 7% |
| The Branch School Inc | $14,373,000 | 5 | 16% |
| The Cedars Camps Inc | $14,099,545 | 5 | 67% |
| E3 Elevating Education Everywhere Inc | $10,083,310 | 5 | n/a |
| Adventure Unlimited | $9,881,879 | 4 | 34% |
| The Principle Foundation | $8,320,375 | 5 | 89% |
Show all 190 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 141 recipients with no EIN on record ($98M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tenacre Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 28 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 171 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 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
How this is measured
About Tenacre Foundation
- How much does Tenacre Foundation give?
- Tenacre Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $31,386,410 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 216 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Tenacre Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (20%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Tenacre Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Fund for Christian Science Nursing ($52M), Teach for All Inc ($35M), First Church of Christ Scientist ($30M).
- Does Tenacre Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tenacre 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 Tenacre Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Isabel Foundation, Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc.
- Where is Tenacre Foundation based?
- Tenacre Foundation is based in NJ.
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