New Tamarind Foundation
At a glance
This funder does not accept unsolicited applications. The foundation chooses the organisations it funds itself.
Key takeaways
- New Tamarind Foundation makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small charity should not send it a cold application and should approach it only through a route it is invited to use.
- Its grant record spans education, health, food assistance, environmental conservation, culture and local community services, so the question is whether your purpose fits, and the filing shows its grants mainly reaching New Jersey, the District of Columbia and New York without stating any geographic rule.
- Half of its 29 grants to organisations across its recent filings were $200,000 or less, and the median grant was $200,000, so a request near that level sits closer to its record than a much larger ask.
- About 8 in 10 grants fall between $2,750 and $2,300,000, a typical band rather than the limit of what it gives.
- Because 31% of its grant dollars to organisations in the most recent filing went to organisations it had funded before, and because it works by invitation, relationships appear to matter a good deal.
Overview
New Tamarind Foundation is a US private foundation based in Harrison, NY.
What they fund
Profile based on the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2024, TY2023, TY2022) only: no website or other web source for the foundation was found. Every statement is checked against the filings. Sources read on 7 October 2026.
Priority Areas
The foundation's grant record shows a varied portfolio. It has supported universities through scholarship funds and made capital-campaign grants to a food bank and an archive and arts institution. General or operating support has gone to health-care, food-assistance, conservation, civic and community organisations. The record also includes support described as plastic solutions and transformational investment in food systems. Recipients are concentrated in New Jersey, with further grants reaching the District of Columbia and New York. Taken together, the recipients and purposes span education, health, food assistance, environmental conservation, culture and local community services, rather than one narrow type of organisation.
Geographic Focus
No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in New Jersey, District of Columbia and New York.
How to apply
It makes contributions only to preselected charitable organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests.
Application success factors
- Repeat giving: In its TY2024 filing, 31% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2022 or TY2023 filing.
- Grant size: Across its TY2022, TY2023 and TY2024 filings, half of its 29 grants to organisations were $200,000 or less.
Where grants go
From grants to organisations in the foundation’s filings for tax years 2022–2024.
Grant dollars by state
1 other state: <1%
- The largest single recipient received 47% of grant dollars to organisations.
- In tax year 2024, 31% of grant dollars went to organisations New Tamarind Foundation had funded in earlier filings.
- No grants were paid directly to organisations outside the US.
- 7% of grant dollars went to intermediaries that regrant to other organisations.
Grants
How much do they typically give?
Share of 22 grants in tax year 2024 by size
Median $188k (tax year 2024)
The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:
- Monmouth University · Scholarship fund$2,252,0122024 tax year
- Fulfill · Capital campaign$1,004,6152024 tax year
- Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music · Capital campaign$1,001,0062024 tax year
- Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation · General support$997,0462024 tax year
- Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires · General support$400,0002024 tax year
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance · General support$325,0002024 tax year
- Lunch Break · General support$300,0002024 tax year
- Civica Foundation · General support$250,0002024 tax year
Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.
Officers and directors
- Scott Cullen — Director
- Wendie Eigen-Weinstein — Treasurer, Director
- John Dias — Vice President, Director
- Joan Rechnitz — President, Director
- Helaine Lerner — Director
- Michael Hurst — Secretary, Director
From the latest Form 990-PF filing
3 years of tax filings
| Year | Total expenses | Grants paid | Assets | Filing document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 tax year | $1,178,162 | $852,545 | $127,073,377 | Filing for 2022 tax year |
| 2023 tax year | $13,155,163 | $11,756,585 | $141,130,531 | Filing for 2023 tax year |
| 2024 tax year | $9,312,635 | $8,357,179 | $155,811,875 | Filing for 2024 tax year |
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.
Sources
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- Harrison, NY