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Cynthia and Morton Zetlin Family 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Religion$17kInternational$14kPhilanthropy$11kArts & Culture$1kHealth$960Housing & Shelter$500Education$430Human Services$50Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
4
States reached
$203k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF IDF$5,100
B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION$1,500
Individual grant recipient$750
CHABAD PALM BEACH GARDENS$540
Individual grant recipient$515
BCRFORG$250
ADVENTIST HEALTH CARE$250
JSSAORG$207
Individual grant recipient$104
JNFORG$103
Individual grant recipient$100
AFMDAORG$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PALM BEACH FRIENDS OF AFMD: $250 → 17%CHABAD LUBAVITCH: $618 → 20%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $250 → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $2k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR: $50 → 14%PARKINSONS FOUNDATION: $250 → 15%ATLANTA SCHOLARS KOLLEL: $180 → 14%TELSHA YESHIVA: $36 → 9%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NORTHERN VA: $1k → 6%FRIENDS OF JEWISH CHAPEL: $100 → 6%B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $2k → 8%AFMDAORG: $100 → 17%GU ADV GIVING: $750 → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH: $2k → 11%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NORTHERN VA: $500 → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASH: $2k → 8%FRIENDS OF YAD: $37 → 17%VFW E-DONATION: $50 → 14%UF SCRIPPS: $1k → 11%B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $2k → 8%JNFORG: $103 → 17%UF SCRIPPS: $500 → 11%B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $2k → 8%12TRIBE FILM: $105 → 17%BALLENISLES CHARITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%B'NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF IDF: $5k → 17%BALLENISLES CHARITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%JSSAORG: $207 → 8%BIRTHRIGHT NY: $104 → 17%CHABAD PALM BEACH GARDENS: $2k → 11%INTERFAITH WORKS OF MONTGOMERY CTY: $158 → 8%BCRFORG: $250 → 17%CHABAD PALM BEACH GARDENS: $2k → 11%CONGREGATION HAR SHALOM: $500 → 8%BCRFORG: $250 → 17%CHABAD PALM BEACH GARDENS: $2k → 11%B'NAI TZEDEK: $250 → 8%BCRFORG: $100 → 17%MANDELL JCC OF PALM BEACH: $1k → 11%HEBREW SHELTERING SOCIETY: $500 → 8%CHABAD PALM BEACH GARDENS: $540 → 11%BCC RESCUE SQUAD: $100 → 8%BALLENISLES CHARITY FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%ADVENTIST HEALTH CARE: $250 → 8%PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE: $360 → 11%TEMPLE EMANUEL: $103 → 8%OHR KODESH CONGREGATION: $103 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
OH
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$34k · 7 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +110% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
24

Total granted

$34k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+25%

Still filing today

29%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +110%
  • BN
    B NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k
  • CO
    CHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASH
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • IT
    INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +301%
  • MJ
    MANDELL JCC OF PALM BEACH
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

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…

Health
6
American College of Surgeons

The american college of surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.

Education
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
10
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
11
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
12
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

B NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATION — $6,406 · OtherB NAI ISRAEL CONGREGATIONCHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS INC — $5,561 · OtherCHABAD OF PALM BEACH GARDENS INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASH — $2,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NORTHERN VA — $1,750 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF NORTHERN VAIndividual grant recipient — $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMANDELL JCC OF PALM BEACH — $1,000 · Other+26 more — $6,165 · Other+26 moreFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $13,895 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FO…BALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC — $4,530 · PhilanthropyBALLENISLES CHARITI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $4,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION O…INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $105 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $105 · HealthGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $250 · Education
Other$24,382International$13,895Philanthropy$8,530Arts & Culture$1,000Health$460Education$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $13,895 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC — $4,530 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds BALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE INC
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association 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.

Ira and Maryjo Sherman Family Foundation IncFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ira and Maryjo Sherman Family Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cynthia and Morton Zetlin Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Adventist Healthcare Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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