· Private foundation
The Talisman Group 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST | $500,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON PLAYHOUSE INC | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY SEALS INC | $25,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM | $22,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSThe Society of the Four Arts Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +720%
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC2× · 2017–2018 · $48k · revenue +101%- HMHorace Mann School3× · 2017–2019 · $38k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TMTHE MAD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +6%
- CSCox Science Center and Aquarium Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +90%
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +54%
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.
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.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Hobart and william smith prepares students to lead lives of consequence.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Education of grades pre-school through eighth grade.
Stoneleigh-burnham school is an academic community that fosters an international perspective. we inspire girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity. each student is challenged to discover her best…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HEWITT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STANFORD PROFESSIONALS IN REAL ESTATE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Talisman Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Talisman Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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