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Tisch Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$55k
Granted FY2022
31
Grants FY2022
14
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$196kHealth$129kPublic Safety & Disaster$127kArts & Culture$61kEducation$30kCommunity Improvement$10kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k30 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$125k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Columbia University$1,000
American Friends of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra$1,000
Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School$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
02The need
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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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Renewal of Life: $750 → 20%Friendly Hand Fdn (dba Friendly House): $3k → 12%American Red Cross of Greater New York: $25k → 17%American Red Cross of Greater New York: $25k → 17%American Red Cross of Greater New York: $25k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
OK
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$354k · 31 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
8

Total granted

$354k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+39%

Still filing today

81%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & 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 Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $105k · revenue +26%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +38%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $51k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • FRIENDLY HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +123%
  • PT
    Progressive Theatre Workshop
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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.

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Fordham University

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.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
New York University

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.

Education
4
Manhattan University

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…

Education
5
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
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The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
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
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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
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The New School

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)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy of New York City Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 59 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $150,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW…+1 more: $4,504 · PhilanthropyThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $105,000 · HealthThe Hospital for Specia…UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY O…+3 more: $3,701 · HealthAmerican Red Cross: $50,000 · OtherAmerican Red CrossMORICHES ROTARY HEALTH CAMP INC: $14,000 · OtherMORICHES ROTARY HEA…Catholic Health Care Foundation of the Archdiocese of NY: $5,000 · OtherRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,500 · Other+25 more: $27,286 · Other+25 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…+2 more: $3,250 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $51,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FR…AURICLE COMMUNICATIONS: $4,568 · Arts & CultureAURICLE COM…+4 more: $1,850 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $26,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,250 · Community ImprovementPARENTS OF PS 9 INC: $10,900 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOL: $4,000 · EducationGSTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $3,500 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $2,250 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE: $1,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,250 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 · Education+3 more: $1,250 · Education
Philanthropy$169,504Health$118,701Other$99,786Human Services$78,250Arts & Culture$57,418Community Improvement$28,750Education$25,650

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $51,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMORICHES ROTARY HEALTH CAMP INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPARENTS OF PS 9 INC: $10,900 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURICLE COMMUNICATIONS: $4,568 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $4,504 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGSTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $3,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $2,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNY PET-I-CARE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSTANDING RENEWAL ENTERPRISES INC dba LOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTER: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RENAISSANCE EXPERIENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMPING UNLIMITED FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $482 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $362 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE H FOUNDATION: $259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Report Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Side-Out Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHartford Lions Soccer Academy: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPTA OF MS 54 INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART HOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK STREET PROJECT: $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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal FundThe Rosalie Katz Fami…Community Foundation …American Express Foun…FjcMutual of America Fou…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY16.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Tisch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tisch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Tisch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tisch Foundation Inc 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.

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 59 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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