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The Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Family Foundation

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.

$361k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$361k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.5MEducation$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.6MFood & Nutrition$361kArts & Culture$150k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$360,908
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS$360,908
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1.5M → 17%LIGA CONTRA EL CANCER (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER): $25k → 15%NEW YORK- PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $700k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $125k → 17%TOWN SCHOOL: $1.0M → 17%TOWN SCHOOL: $1.0M → 17%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND: $50k → 17%SHED NYC INC: $150k → 17%FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 17%NEW YORK - PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $700k → 17%CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $361k → 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.
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
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 University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education
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New York Genome Center Inc

Providing global leadership in human genome research and its translation into clinical care.

Health
3
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

Leading center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

We translate science into health.

Health
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Nyu Langone Hospitals

Nyu langone hospitals' trifold mission to serve, teach, and discover is achieved daily through an integrated academic culture devoted to excellence in patient care, education, and research.

Health
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Long Island University

Provide excellence and access in education to those who seek to expand their knowledge. see sch o.

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Liberty Science Center

To inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers and excite learners of all ages about the power, promise, and pure fun of science and technology.lsc offers exceptional science learning onsite, offsite, and online as well as…

Arts & Culture
9
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies. (SEE SCHEDULE O FOR CONTINUATION)

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The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Communal Fund; the most unlike its peers is The Town School 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

7 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. 7 of the 10 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)
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Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TOWN SCHOOL INC: $2,000,000 · OtherTHE TOWN SCHOOL INCNEW YORK - PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $1,400,000 · OtherNEW YORK - PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALYALE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY+1 more: $25,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1,625,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationTARGET ALS FOUND…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $360,908 · Food & NutritionSHED NYC INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $50,000 · HealthLIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER INC): $25,000 · Health
Other$3,625,000Philanthropy$1,625,000Education$1,000,000Food & Nutrition$360,908Arts & Culture$150,000Health$75,000

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 budgetTHE TOWN SCHOOL INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $1,625,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $360,908 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIGA CONTRA EL CANCER INC (LEAGUE AGAINST CANCER INC): $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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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    Find your warmest path to The Lizzie and Jonathan 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 10 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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