· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTEACH FOR ALL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35M · revenue +55%
LONGYEAR FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2023 · $21M · revenue +126%- 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
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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How this is measured
180 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. 180 of the 333 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tenacre Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tenacre Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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