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A lifelong Giants fan, Laurie M. Tisch has been associated with the team since her late father, Bob Tisch, purchased 50 percent of the franchise in 1991.

Ms. Tisch is the President of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. The Illumination Fund is organized around a core mission of increasing access and opportunity for all New Yorkers and fostering healthy and vibrant communities, using an equity lens to develop initiatives and to issue grants. Since she started the foundation in 2007, the Illumination Fund has undertaken high-impact initiatives, including Healthy Food & Community Change, launched in 2013, and Arts in Health, launched in 2018. The Fund has played a catalytic role in a range of initiatives and organizations, as well as in public-private partnerships with multiple City agencies.

A lifelong Giants fan, Laurie M. Tisch has been associated with the team since her late father, Bob Tisch, purchased 50 percent of the franchise in 1991.

Ms. Tisch is the President of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. The Illumination Fund is organized around a core mission of increasing access and opportunity for all New Yorkers and fostering healthy and vibrant communities, using an equity lens to develop initiatives and to issue grants. Since she started the foundation in 2007, the Illumination Fund has undertaken high-impact initiatives, including Healthy Food & Community Change, launched in 2013, and Arts in Health, launched in 2018. The Fund has played a catalytic role in a range of initiatives and organizations, as well as in public-private partnerships with multiple City agencies.

Ms. Tisch's philanthropy stems from her family's legacy of giving in New York City, from years of experience serving on boards, building institutions and developing partnerships, and from an engaged civic life.

She is a former Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is on the Board of Trustees at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, serves on the Board of Directors at The Juilliard School and is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute.

Ms. Tisch is Chair Emeritus of the Center for Arts Education and the Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM).

Ms. Tisch is a recipient of many awards for philanthropy and public service. In December 2018, she received the Key to the City of New York at Gracie Mansion. She was named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women of 2017" by Crain's New York Business, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was honored with the United Way of NYC's 10th Anniversary Power of Women to Make a Difference Award and by the New York Women's Foundation.