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The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family 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.

$57k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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70% of The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Metrowest Nj, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’21
2
’22
3
’23
2
’24
3
’25

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

Median grant, FY2025
$5,370
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$17k75%
FY20243$15k33%
FY20235$32k40%
FY20223$15k67%
FY20214$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$141kReligion$62kHuman Services$21kHealth$20kEducation$3kRecreation & Sports$2kCrime & Legal$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc$20,00020%
Rutgers Hillel Corporation$15,80040%
American Cancer Society Inc$15,00020%
Beth-El Synogogue$5,3701n/a
New Jersey Federation of Young Men's Hebrew Association and Young Women's$2,00010%
Millburn Pba #34$1,0001n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc give?
The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $57,072 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (56%), Religion (25%), Human Services (8%).
Who are The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc ($20k), Rutgers Hillel Corporation ($16k), American Cancer Society Inc ($15k).
Does The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc 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 The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc based?
The Elana Wilf & Brett Tanzman Family Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 15 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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