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The Tenzer Family Foundation at a glance

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The Tenzer Family 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.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.4MHealth$548kArts & Culture$193kHuman Services$45kReligion$44kAnimals$39kPublic Benefit$38kPhilanthropy$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$55,000
ARTIS-NAPLES$25,000
DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,000
WIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC$8,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
THE MDS FOUNDATION$5,000
FRIENDS OF CHICAGO ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL (FCACC)$5,000
DEPAUL COLLEGE PREP$5,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$5,000
HEAVENS GAIT RANCH$2,500
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE$2,500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$2,280
ENCHANTED BACKPACK$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES: $16k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $930 → 10%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
WI
NY
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
AZ
TN
OK
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 43 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
16

Total granted

$6.9M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+48%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • DePauw University
    5× · 2017–2023 · $6.1M · revenue +43%
  • AI
    ARTIS-NAPLES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +27%
  • DM
    DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SONG BOOK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BURLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +29%
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.

1
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
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
4
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
5
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
8
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
12
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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

41 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. 41 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
32/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DePauw University: $6,144,802 · EducationDePauw University+6 more: $74,000 · EducationMAYO CLINIC: $405,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $69,000 · HealthTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $18,000 · Health+3 more: $20,000 · HealthDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $123,175 · OtherFRIENDS OF BURLEY SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CHICAGO ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL: $20,000 · OtherHeavens Gait Ranch Inc: $18,000 · Other+35 more: $112,077 · OtherARTIS-NAPLES INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $25,900 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,950 · Arts & CultureWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $19,240 · Human ServicesCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC: $19,158 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $930 · Human ServicesWIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC: $38,000 · ReligionFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Education$6,218,802Health$537,000Other$314,252Arts & Culture$172,850Human Services$54,328Religion$38,000Public Benefit$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDePauw University: $6,144,802 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $405,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $145,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $123,175 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $69,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC: $38,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $25,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHICAGO ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL: $20,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $19,240 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC: $19,158 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetHeavens Gait Ranch Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KISHWAUKETOE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDANNY DID FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BURLEY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGeneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $2,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $930 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 DePauw University ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds WIND RIVER MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CHICAGO ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds Heavens Gait Ranch Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KISHWAUKETOE ↗
  • Who funds DANNY DID FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BURLEY ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Geneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ↗

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.

John & Linda Anderson…The Chicago Community…The David & Colleen A…Dean L & Rosemarie Bu…Carol Bernick Family …The Anna Emery Hanson…Tracy E Anderson Char…Alben F & Clara G Bat…Sbk Stearns Family Fo…Otzen Family Foundati…The Griffith Family F…The John a Miller Fam…
John & Linda Anderson Charitable FoundationIL19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · The Anna Emery Hanson Charitable Foundation 1 · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Alben F & Clara G Bates Foundation · Sbk Stearns Family Foundation · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · The Griffith Family Foundation · The John a Miller Family 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 Tenzer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tenzer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Christ Child Society of Naples Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report 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
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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