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The Jonathan M Tisch Family Foundation at a glance

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The Jonathan M Tisch Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$16M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

69% of The Jonathan M Tisch Family Foundation’s FY2024 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. FY2024 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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17
’21
13
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22
’23
15
’24

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 2024.

Philanthropy$54MArts & Culture$27MEducation$15MHealth$6.6MHuman Services$527kFood & Nutrition$379kYouth Development$225kReligion$133kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $358k
  • $250k+5 grants · $22M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$190M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$15,677,872
SHED NYC INC$3,200,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$1,750,000
TARGET ALS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$500,000
ACTOR'S FUND OF AMERICA$200,000
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$107,500
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND$50,000
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA$25,000
LIGA CONTRA EL CANCER (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER)$25,000
NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM COMPANY$17,500
TAKE THE FIELD INC$16,667
NEW 42ND ST INC-THE NEW VICTORY THEATER$15,000
BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION$12,500
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 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

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IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
VA
AR
NC
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49M · 29 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
25

Total granted

$49M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+1%

Still filing today

76%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +39%
  • TF
    THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $4.1M · revenue +54%
  • NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK SAYS THANK YOU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue -93% · 60% of their budget
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +34%
  • MF
    MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -12%
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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New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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7
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
8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
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 Take the Field Inc. 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

54 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. 54 of the 63 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
33/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $53,547,649 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+6 more: $712,500 · PhilanthropySHED NYC INC: $22,710,438 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INCNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION: $2,500,000 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CE…+12 more: $1,666,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreTrustees of Tufts College: $10,021,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts …THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC: $4,100,000 · EducationTHE FREDERICK GUNN…TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · EducationTARGET ALS FOUNDAT…+5 more: $535,000 · EducationNEW YORK - PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $2,100,000 · OtherACTOR'S FUND OF AMERICA: $525,000 · OtherNEW YORK SAYS THANK YOU FOUNDATION: $350,000 · OtherTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $200,000 · Other+19 more: $757,170 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1,750,000 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $100,000 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $75,000 · Health+5 more: $145,500 · HealthCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $288,275 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$54,260,149Arts & Culture$26,876,438Education$16,656,000Other$3,932,170Health$2,070,500Food & Nutrition$293,275Public Safety & Disaster$230,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $53,547,649 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $22,710,438 over 5y, 10% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $10,021,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC: $4,100,000 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION: $2,500,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1,750,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $750,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $450,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK SAYS THANK YOU FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $288,275 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $282,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $135,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE THE FIELD INC: $66,670 over 4y, 22% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $62,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $61,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER INC): $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $17,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetABNY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget826NYC Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Goldman Sachs Cha…The Bessemer Giving F…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The New York Communit…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ford FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…
Jewish Communal FundNY19.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Jonathan M Tisch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jonathan M Tisch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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How do I get to The Jonathan M Tisch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Jonathan M Tisch Family Foundation 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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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