The Steve Tisch Family Foundation

• This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and makes grants only to preselected organisations, so a cold application is unlikely to succeed; charities should not apply unless invited.
• Its funding spans educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes, so a wide range of charitable work could in principle fit, but no geographic focus is stated, so do not assume being based in a particular place is required.
• Most grants to organisations are modest: about 8 in 10 of its 65 grants fall between $5,000 and $2,000,000, and half of its 65 grants were $25,000 or less, so a request in that lower range is realistic for most applicants, while a few grants (including one of about $9,500,000 to an organisation it funds every year that regrants to other charities) show it can also make very large awards in specific cases.
• The pattern of giving looks highly relationship-led rather than competitive: 97% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in the previous two years, suggesting it mostly renews existing relationships rather than seeking new ones through open applications.

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

• Jewish Communal Fund · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $9,477,1632024 tax year
• La County Museum Of Art (Museum Associates) · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $2,100,0002024 tax year
• Children's Museum of Manhattan · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $333,3342024 tax year
• Breast Cancer Research Foundation · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $125,0002024 tax year
• Simon Wiesenthal Center · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $75,0002024 tax year
• HUC Skirball Cultural Center · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Exceptional Children's Foundation · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $25,0002024 tax year
• National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund · To further educational, religious, medical, cultural, societal and environmental causes.
  $25,0002024 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.