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Arthur Zaltzman Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE - LAUREN AND SAMUEL KESSLER CHARITABLE FUND | $122,743 |
| AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK | $36,824 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $36,822 |
| CURED FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $24,549 |
| DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE | $24,549 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION | $24,548 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| DANCE FOR LIFE CO CHICAGO DANCERS UNITED | $20,000 |
| BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - IL | $12,275 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ATTN JIM HIGLEY | $12,275 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $12,274 |
| TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $12,274 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $404k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $40k · revenue +43%
- CFCURED FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $34k
- AAANN AND ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOPSITAL2× · 2019–2020 · $15k
Funded once
- MCMS COHN WEIL MEMORIAL OUTINGone grant, 2019 · $3k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $2k
ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.
To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
Amid the proliferation of advice about treatment options for autism, the ability to access accurate information about research-validated approaches is critically important to those seeking effective treatment.
The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…
Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…
Founded in 1986, mtppi is a research organization specializing in health service research, education and health policy analysis of new and emerging technologies.
Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organization for Autism Research and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arthur Zaltzman Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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