New York · Private foundation
The Tang Fund
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.
- $7.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2024
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 80
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $54M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations The Tang Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 83 | $7.7M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $6.9M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $6.7M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $6.1M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $4.1M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 76 | $2.2M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $3.7M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 78 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $6,331,462 | 8 | 2% |
| New York Historical Society | $5,678,070 | 8 | 4% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $2,817,152 | 7 | 0% |
| The Rectory School Inc | $2,685,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Trustees of Phillips Academy | $2,302,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Asia Society | $2,144,475 | 4 | 3% |
| Masters School | $1,786,140 | 8 | 1% |
| Vail Mountain School | $1,132,870 | 6 | 3% |
| Committee of 100 Inc | $1,017,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $852,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 173 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tang Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ag Foundation · The Ford Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Vail Valley Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Tang Fund?
Find your warmest path to The Tang Fund 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.
About The Tang Fund
- How much does The Tang Fund give?
- The Tang Fund reported 85 grants totaling $7,772,160 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 80 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Tang Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (26%), Public Benefit (7%).
- Who are The Tang Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc ($6.3M), New York Historical Society ($5.7M), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($2.8M).
- Does The Tang Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Tang Fund 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 Tang Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The Tang Fund based?
- The Tang Fund is based in NY.
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