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The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc

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.

$8.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

88% of The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 21 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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23
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$41MEducation$23MArts & Culture$6.5MReligion$2.7MHealth$1.3MInternational$905kPublic Benefit$342kFood & Nutrition$59kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $550k
  • $250k+2 grants · $7.6M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$7,363,525
CHABAD OF COLLEGE HILL INC$250,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$135,155
JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES$100,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION$65,000
NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS$50,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$50,000
MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$50,000
NY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (PUBLIC THEATER)$25,000
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$25,000
CITIZEN'S BUDGET COMMISSION$25,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$25,000
CHAMAH$18,000
INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$17,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $525k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $300k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $100k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $100k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $70k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
RI
MO
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 29 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
37

Total granted

$9.1M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+5%

Still filing today

90%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +38%
  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM
    2× · 2020–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +305%
  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • BH
    BROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -13% · 34% of their budget
  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -28%
  • SS
    SOLDIERS SAVE LIVES CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue -74%
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.

04Its field

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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Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
5
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
7
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
8
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
9
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $41,005,614 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBROWN UNIVERSITY: $23,241,621 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYMuseum of Modern Art: $2,372,085 · Arts & CultureMuseum of…THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDI…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $373,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLI…TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $229,234 · Arts & Culture+32 more: $1,282,200 · Arts & Culture+32 moreCHABAD OF COLLEGE HILL INC: $1,250,000 · OtherBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherNY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (PUBLIC THEATER): $150,000 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $300,000 · OtherEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $150,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $150,000 · Other+25 more: $590,000 · OtherJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1,145,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $500,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalSOLDIERS SAVE LIVES CORPORATION: $400,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$41,006,614Community Improvement$23,241,621Arts & Culture$6,256,519Other$3,590,000Human Services$1,145,000International$505,000Public Safety & Disaster$450,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $41,005,614 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $23,241,621 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,372,085 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $2,000,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $1,145,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOLDIERS SAVE LIVES CORPORATION: $400,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $373,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $229,234 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS BUDGET COMMISSION INC: $111,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INC: $77,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPS 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCITY LORE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMunicipal Art Society of New York: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $44,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDD FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIORELLO H LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP NEBAGAMON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITERACY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetForsyth Farmers Market Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…Arison Arts FoundationAg FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…The Horace W Goldsmit…The Cowles Charitable…Helen Frankenthaler F…The Kraus Family Foun…The Marie-Josee and H…
Jewish Communal FundNY30.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Arison Arts Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Kraus Family Foundation · The Marie-Josee and Henry R Kravis Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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