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The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Inc

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.

$30M
Granted FY2024still arriving
113
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$22M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$41MHealth$7.9MEducation$5.0MPhilanthropy$4.7MSocial Science$1.4MCivil Rights$817kYouth Development$768kHousing & Shelter$575kOther$0
02FY2024 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+7 grants · $26M
$25,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$317M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$21,616,570
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$1,325,000
NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP$1,001,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$657,100
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$400,000
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$300,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$300,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$235,000
JUILLIARD SCHOOL$200,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$178,425
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$175,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$150,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$150,000
FILM MAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC$100,000
TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION$100,000
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, $505k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RETREAT: $10k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATIONAL CENTER: $25k → 7%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $50k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $50k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $50k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $25k → 17%AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING: $25k → 17%MEKONG NYC: $25k → 28%MEKONG NYC: $25k → 28%MEKONG NYC: $5k → 28%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $25k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $35k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $35k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $25k → 17%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $35k → 17%FIND AID FOR THE AGED INC: $10k → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 102 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

102 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
94

Total granted

$56M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN
    4× · 2020–2024 · $22M · revenue +517% · 41% of their budget
  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +13%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $917k · revenue +34%
  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $483k · revenue -92%
  • TS
    THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +305%
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.

1
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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
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
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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5
Berggruen Institute
Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
8
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
9
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
10
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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11
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
12
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
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 Billion Minds Institute. 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

217 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. 217 of the 244 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
216/217
Grantees still filing
130/217
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $22,045,116 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTANLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $8,030,050 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $3,646,204 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART+72 more: $6,060,129 · Arts & Culture+72 moreNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $2,521,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HE…MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NYC: $1,425,000 · OtherMAYOR'S FUND TO …BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (BROOKLYN MUSEUM): $775,000 · OtherBROOKLYN INSTITU…+66 more: $4,690,163 · Other+66 moreSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1,500,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $1,035,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $525,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $328,425 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $230,000 · EducationNew York University: $160,000 · Education+10 more: $447,665 · EducationNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $1,610,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $916,667 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $483,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $450,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $255,000 · HealthARTS & MINDS INC: $190,000 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $176,667 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $166,000 · Health+9 more: $281,618 · HealthTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $1,350,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $500,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $135,225 · Philanthropy+7 more: $336,216 · PhilanthropyTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,430,000 · Social ScienceTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE: $100,000 · Social Science+1 more: $50,000 · Social ScienceTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: $200,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesMekong Inc: $55,000 · Human ServicesBOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $50,000 · Human ServicesIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$39,781,499Other$9,411,163Education$4,726,090Health$4,528,952Philanthropy$3,321,441Social Science$1,580,000Human Services$505,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $22,045,116 over 4y, 41% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $8,030,050 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $3,646,204 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $1,610,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,430,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $1,350,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $1,035,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $916,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $575,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $525,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $483,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $328,425 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $300,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGINA GIBNEY DANCE INC: $262,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $255,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $230,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRECESS ACTIVITIES INC: $212,500 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $210,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORPORATION: $210,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: $200,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetPREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC: $200,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetARTS & MINDS INC: $190,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $187,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $181,135 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $176,875 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $176,667 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARTISTIC NOISE INC: $175,750 over 5y, 13% of budgetCOMMON THREADS PROJECT: $175,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $166,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIESPACE INC: $155,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELEANOR NOW: $150,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC: $140,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDarkness RISING Project: $136,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $135,225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOL CULTURE INC: $135,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetART START INC: $135,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $125,500 over 4y, 1.2% 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.

The New York Communit…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…The Hyde and Watson F…Booth Ferris Foundati…Rockefeller Brothers …The Howard Gilman Fou…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Shelley & Donald Rubi…Arison Arts Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY57.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · Arison Arts 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 Laurie M Tisch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laurie M Tisch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
  • National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
61report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Laurie M 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 244 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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