The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation

• The filing says the foundation accepts no unsolicited requests and makes contributions only to organisations it selected in advance, so a small charity it has not already chosen should not send a cold proposal.
• Any approach would have to rest on an existing relationship, which fits the finding that 98% of grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in an earlier filing.
• If you do have a path in, a modest request fits its pattern: about 8 in 10 grants fall between $5,000 and $400,000, and half of its grants to organisations were $25,000 or less, though the largest grant was about $12,500,000, so that band is not a ceiling.
• Its recorded giving has been mainly in New York and Rhode Island, but no geographic focus is stated, and its grants span educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes, a pattern drawn from the grants rather than stated by the foundation.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Jewish Communal Fund · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $7,363,5252025 tax year
• Chabad of College Hill · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $250,0002025 tax year
• Museum of Modern Art · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $135,1552025 tax year
• Metropolitan Museum of Art · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $100,0002025 tax year
• Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $100,0002025 tax year
• Tate Americas Foundation · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $65,0002025 tax year
• Children's Museum of Manhattan · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $50,0002025 tax year
• Nyu Langone Hospitals · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $50,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.