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The Marion & Norman Tanzman Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of THE MARION & NORMAN TANZMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $840k
- $250k+2 grants · $588k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MIDDLESEX | $300,000 |
| RUTGERS HILLEL | $288,000 |
| RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $213,000 |
| CHABAD HOUSEFRIENDS LUBAVITCH-RUTGERS | $210,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION IN THE HEART OF NEW JERSEY | $192,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION HEALTH GROUP | $125,000 |
| CHABAD OF THE SHORE | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MONMOUTH COUNTY | $35,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S SENIOR RESIDENCE | $32,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK CONSERVATIVE TEMPLE | $29,000 |
| JEWISH FED HEART OF NJ PJ LIBRARY PROGRAM | $26,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR DISABILITIES | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR JEWISH-AFFILIATED CEMETERIES | $25,000 |
| RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURSTNY SERV FOR HNDCP | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +32% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- TRTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +385%
- RHRutgers Hillel Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +67%
- NJNEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR DISABILITIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $825k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -84%
- CSCHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +12%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GALILEE MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
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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Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
The organization's mission is to provide individuals throughout the greater boston area with the highest level of skilled nursing, rehabilitation and assisted living services without regard to ability to pay. the goal is to ensure both…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To obtain funds and property by gift and apply the income and principal thereof, either directly or through contributions to jewish home and rehabilitation center, home at rockleigh, jewish home assisted living, and the jewish home family,…
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.
Providing charitable services to the elderly or infirm to assist them to continue to reside in their home environment.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
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The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Institute for Children With Cancer and Blood Disorders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Live Like Cory Memorial Founda. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 100 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 THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION HEALTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elijahs Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Childrens Service of Greater Monmouth County ↗
- Who funds The reThink Israel Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Life Town Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH HIDDEN INTELLIGENCE ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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: The Provident Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Fjc · The Russell Berrie Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Magyarbank Charitable 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 Marion & Norman Tanzman Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Choose New Jersey Inc — 25% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Vocational Service of Middlesex County Inc — 10% of income from government
- Rabbinical College of America — 5% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
- Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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.
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