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The Steve 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.

$13M
Granted FY2020
34
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

77% of The Steve 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 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Steve Tisch Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 29 organizations, $13M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

29
’20
18
’21
18
’22
26
’23
17
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$36MArts & Culture$25MEducation$9.3MHealth$3.1MFood & Nutrition$658kHousing & Shelter$500kHuman Services$330kCivil Rights$300kOther$0
02FY2020 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
  • $250k+14 grants · $12M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$228M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART (MUSEUM ASSOCIATES)$3,600,000
UCLA FOUNDATION$2,000,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
ACADEMY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM$833,333
NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS$600,000
FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INCORPORATED$550,000
MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND FOUNDATION$500,000
MAYORS FUND FOR LOS ANGELES$500,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$500,000
SHED NYC INC$333,333
SAG-AFTRA FOUNDATION$250,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$250,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$200,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $501k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $200k → 14%TORY BURCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $750 → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $25k → 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%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $50k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
NC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 27 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
31

Total granted

$30M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

93%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $373k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +89%
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +6%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
  • TH
    The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $833k · revenue +60%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
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
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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7
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
8
Academy Museum Foundation

The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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12
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr12%31%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr12%60%35–55yr13%35%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
14%
11,586/82,942

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 61 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
41/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $35,822,616 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+3 more — $850,000 · PhilanthropyMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $17,525,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESACADEMY FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY FOUNDATION+15 more — $2,818,001 · Arts & Culture+15 moreTrustees of Tufts College — $2,065,000 · EducationTrustees o…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $2,000,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN…UCLA FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · EducationUCLA FOUND…THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC — $550,000 · EducationTHE FREDER…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationNew York University — $250,000 · Education+2 more — $135,000 · EducationThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $1,000,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $833,333 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $600,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $158,333 · Health+2 more — $15,000 · HealthMOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $500,000 · OtherEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $100,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOME — $100,000 · OtherTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 · OtherNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND — $125,000 · Other+11 more — $249,169 · OtherAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $2,000,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $100,000 · InternationalVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $200,000 · Human ServicesIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisner Scholars — $50,000 · Human ServicesTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $25,750 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$36,672,616Arts & Culture$23,343,001Education$7,300,000Health$2,606,666Other$2,949,169International$2,100,000Human Services$500,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $35,822,616 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $17,525,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $2,065,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ — $2,000,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $833,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC — $716,667 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC — $550,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN — $333,334 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND — $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNew York University — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM — $240,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER — $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $158,333 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND — $125,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTAKE THE FIELD INC — $66,669 over 4y, 22% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTORY BURCH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $25,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHEALTHY ROOM PROJECT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Marilyn and Jeffr…The Ahmanson Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundThe Streisand Foundat…Hollywood Foreign Pre…Hobsonlucas Family Fo…The Ralph M Parsons F…National Philanthropi…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Streisand Foundation · Hollywood Foreign Press Association · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Steve Tisch Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Steve Tisch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Steve 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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