How much does The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation give?

The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $576,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (26%), Arts & Culture (4%).

Who are The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc ($385k), University of Pittsburgh ($375k), Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($250k).

Does The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation 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 Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation based?

The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation is based in NY.

The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation

The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Rita and Burt Tansky 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.

$576k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$375k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$985kHealth$909kArts & Culture$153kFood & Nutrition$135kHuman Services$98kYouth Development$53kHousing & Shelter$50kReligion$35kOther$0

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $1k
$10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$250k+1 grant · $375k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH	$375,000
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY	$100,000
Individual grant recipient	$50,000
TEMPLE JUDEA	$25,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE	$15,000
HOMELESS COALITION of Palm Beach County Inc	$10,000
PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD PROJECT	$1,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$935k · 7 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$935k

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+29%

Still filing today

100%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $566k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

FA
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +49%
MS
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
2× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +34%
KK
Kind Kitchen of Palm beach Inc
3× · 2022–2024 · $143k · revenue +1%

Funded once

SB
ST BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION (12142016)
one grant, 2017 · $100k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (12152017)
one grant, 2018 · $100k
JM
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION (12182017)
one grant, 2018 · $100k

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.

Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy

The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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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

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

21 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. 21 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

16/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$946,500Education$785,000Human Services$507,750Arts & Culture$147,500International$100,000Philanthropy$30,000Civil Rights$15,000

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

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 FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rita and Burt Tansky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get 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 · 0–15%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home