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The Tepper Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Tepper Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$625k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$505k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$591kEducation$280kPhilanthropy$103kArts & Culture$43kRecreation & Sports$40kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$8kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $505k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELEN KELLER NATIONAL CENTER$505,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$100,000
MAZON$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$5,000
PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$4,000
HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION$2,750
COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY$1,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$600
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $5k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $4k → 9%HOSPITALITY ASSISTANCE RESPONSE OF PA: $1k → 12%TOGETHER WE RISE: $1k → 10%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $16k → 6%SEE ATTACHMENT A: $46k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY- NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1k → 17%HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $5k → 16%UKRAINE RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $2k → 9%CHESTER-MENDHAM LITTLE LEAGUE SPONSOR: $2k → 4%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $3k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $3k → 9%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $16k → 6%PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER NORTHWELL HEALTH: $15k → 7%ALI FORNEY CENTER: $1k → 17%FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $1k → 9%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $16k → 6%PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER NORTHWELL HEALTH: $2k → 7%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $10k → 17%PARKER JEWISH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER: $2k → 7%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $3k → 17%PARKER JEWISH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $3k → 17%PARKER JEWISH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIORS: $2k → 17%PARKER JEWISH INSTITUTE: $1k → 6%THE JULLIARD SCHOOL: $3k → 17%PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%ROMEMU: $5k → 17%SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 6%HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $14k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE PORT WASHINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4k → 6%LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $14k → 17%LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET: $4k → 6%LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 17%LANDMARK MAIN STREET: $4k → 6%ROAD RECOVERY: $2k → 17%LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET: $4k → 6%LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET: $4k → 6%SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY: $3k → 6%COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY CHEST PORT WASHINGTON: $1k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $1k → 6%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
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
TX
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$421k · 14 repeat orgs$659k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
15

Total granted

$421k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+21%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $253k · revenue +49%
  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $48k · revenue +17%
  • LO
    LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • MO
    METROPOLITAN OPERA
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • UR
    UKRAINE RELIEF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -55%
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
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
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
3
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
4
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
5
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
6
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
7
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
8
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
9
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association

Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
10
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
11
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
12
Huntington Hospital Association

Huntington hospital association's ("hospital") mission is to provide a full range of inpatient, outpatient and specialized healthcare services, regardless of a patient's ability to pay, within an environment nurtured by respect and safety.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

19 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. 19 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Helen Keller Services: $505,000 · Human ServicesHelen Keller ServicesTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $252,750 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATIO…PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationPORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUN…+2 more: $9,000 · EducationLARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $37,000 · OtherLARK PLAY D…PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER NORTHWELL HEALTH: $16,500 · OtherPECONIC BAY…METROPOLITAN OPERA: $10,000 · OtherMETROPOLITA…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $8,000 · OtherMASS GENERA…UKRAINE RELIEF FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherKEHILAT ROMEMU: $5,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC: $4,000 · Other+12 more: $19,000 · Other+12 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEW…+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $48,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $7,000 · HealthLANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $600 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 · International
Human Services$505,000Education$276,750Other$109,500Philanthropy$103,000Health$55,000Arts & Culture$32,600International$5,000

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 budgetHelen Keller Services: $505,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $252,750 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK ON MAIN STREET INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY: $4,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 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.

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.

Peter & Jeri Dejana F…The Harry & Phyllis M…The Pamela and Lauren…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Peter & Jeri Dejana FoundationNY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · The Harry & Phyllis Manko Family Foundation · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tepper Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tepper Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 35 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $46k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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