· 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.
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
- Under $10k45 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $323k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $6.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,210,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $2,169,485 |
| THE MASTERS SCHOOL | $641,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $522,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $400,000 |
| COMMITTEE OF 100 INC | $303,500 |
| FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM | $200,000 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $150,000 |
| RETHINK FOOD USA INC | $142,948 |
| MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATIONGORDON PARKS FOUNDATION | $111,700 |
| VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $86,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $84,390 |
| WALKING MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER | $63,240 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $62,500 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
111 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 19 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +21%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +58%
- TRTHE RECTORY SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- AFAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSone grant, 2022 · $3.3M
- FMFAIRBANKS MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $400k
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $400k · revenue +59%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see 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…
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."
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…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
How this is measured
178 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. 178 of the 220 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds RETHINK FOOD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds St Johnsbury Academy ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds USA BOBSLEDSKELETON INC ↗
- Who funds SILK ROAD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RETHINK FOOD USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYUU TAYA FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tang Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tang Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium: 7% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc: 4% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Academy: 3% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- The Rectory School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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