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Tisch Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Tisch Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 20 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Tisch Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $55k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k30 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Red Cross of Greater New York | $25,000 |
| Jewish Communal Fund | $7,500 |
| Jewish Federation - Northern New Jeresey | $2,500 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | $2,500 |
| Moriches Rotary Health Camp Inc | $2,500 |
| Parents of PS 9 | $2,225 |
| UJA-Federation of New York | $2,000 |
| Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School | $1,000 |
| American Friends of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | $1,000 |
| Columbia University | $1,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $830 |
| Brick Presbyterian Church | $750 |
| Auricle Communications | $600 |
| World Central Kitchen | $550 |
| N Y Pet-I-Care | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
31 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- THThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $105k · revenue +26%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +38%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA2× · 2021–2022 · $51k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +31%
FRIENDLY HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +123%- PTProgressive Theatre Workshopone grant, 2020 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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 weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hartford Lions Soccer Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds MORICHES ROTARY HEALTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS OF PS 9 INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AURICLE COMMUNICATIONS ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GSTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds NY PET-I-CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds OUTSTANDING RENEWAL ENTERPRISES INC dba LOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CAMPING UNLIMITED FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Rosalie Katz Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · American Express Foundation · Fjc · Mutual of America Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Tisch Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Art House Productions Inc — 8% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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