· Private foundation
The Barry H Tigay Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of The Barry H Tigay Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Barry H Tigay Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $97k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDC | $49,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $14,000 |
| ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE | $5,545 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| BNAI JEHASHUA BETH ELOHIM | $3,000 |
| HEBRON FUND | $1,000 |
| ONE ISRAEL FUND | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST FUND | $1,000 |
| SAVED BY ZADE | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHEI AVOT | $1,000 |
| TESTICULAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $900 |
| SKY FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- ZOZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +40%
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +36%- OIONE ISRAEL FUND LTD6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- AOALLIANCE OF COALITIONSone grant, 2022 · $2k
- AAALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF U O Mone grant, 2020 · $1k
- FOFederation of Jain Associations in North Americagraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +85%
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 Jewish Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Our House Therapy Collective. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 101 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
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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
- Who funds HEBRON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL INC ↗
- Who funds SAVED BY ZADE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Testicular Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DARCHEI AVOT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD BAND AND ORCHESTRA BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds HONESTREPORTINGCOM INC ↗
- Who funds Federation of Jain Associations in North America ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Milstein Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
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 The Barry H Tigay Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Preeclampsia Foundation Inc — 9% 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.