New York · Private foundation
The Tepper 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.
- $109M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 172
- Grants FY2025
- 141
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $41,887,484
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 141
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $962M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Tepper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 161 | $91M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 141 | $69M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 123 | $62M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 104 | $58M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 81 | $24M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $39M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $12M | 55% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $30M | 44% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Meridian Partners Inc | $41,887,484 | 1 | 5% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $39,623,875 | 8 | 1% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $8,200,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $8,050,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Feeding America | $7,995,994 | 7 | 0% |
| Single Stop USA Inc | $5,950,000 | 5 | 18% |
| Upstream USA Inc | $5,260,000 | 7 | 3% |
| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc | $4,600,000 | 5 | 1% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $4,500,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $3,967,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 243 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($172M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Tepper Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Wawa Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Russell Berrie Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to The Tepper Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Tepper Foundation 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 Tepper Foundation
- How much does The Tepper Foundation give?
- The Tepper Foundation reported 172 grants totaling $108,731,381 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 141 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Tepper Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Philanthropy (13%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are The Tepper Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blue Meridian Partners Inc ($42M), Carnegie Mellon University ($40M), Robin Hood Foundation ($8.2M).
- Does The Tepper Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Tepper Foundation 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 Tepper Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Columbia Bank Foundation, Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc.
- Where is The Tepper Foundation based?
- The Tepper Foundation is based in NY.
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