· Private foundation
Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of BURTON A ZIPSER AND SANDRA D ZIPSER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MSU HILLEL | $24,250 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $18,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $18,000 |
| THE JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK | $15,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $15,000 |
| THE ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER | $15,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $15,000 |
| DETROIT OPERA | $15,000 |
| THE ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER | $15,000 |
| ORT AMERICA | $13,750 |
| ORT AMERICA | $13,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| CARR CENTER (THE) | $12,000 |
| FARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- OAORT AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $143k · revenue +16%
- CBCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL5× · 2021–2025 · $123k · revenue +11%
- JHJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +14%
Funded once
HERITAGE WORKSone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -63%- TATHE ARTS LEAGUE OF MIone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SOSPHINX ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue -35%
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.
The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.
The mission of the chamber music society of detroit is to bring together inspired musicians and passionate listeners for extraordinary experiences with small ensemble music.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
The mission of greater miami opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera. by expanding its reach to diverse communities throughout miami and fort lauderdale and wider audiences abroad creating a…
Inspire students to be active in jewish life.
To produce theatre on the highest possible professional level. interest to jewish audiences.
Music of the baroque is a professional orchestra and chorus excelling in the performance of works from the 18th century and before. the organization also educates 2,900 chicago public school students each year through its 'strong voices'…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
To enrich the communities of Southeastern Michigan in fostering excellence and innovation to our community in the performance of orchestral music to educate current and future audiences
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Opera and the most unlike its peers is Motown Historical Musuem Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Detroit Youth Concert Choir and Performing Arts Company ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE WORKS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ANN ARBOR ↗
- Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC ↗
- Who funds L E A D FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTORS GUILD INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Grosfeld Foundation · Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Burton a Zipser and Sandra D Zipser 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.