How much did DAN AND ELLEN ZELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

Philanthropy$1.5MReligion$653kFood & Nutrition$345kArts & Culture$264kHealth$250kHuman Services$93kCommunity Improvement$90kCivil Rights$80kEducation$60kOther$394k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

coronavirus emergencyemergency responsehealthmedicallegalmake

2021

turnprogressiveidealsactioninspiredstrivessocial

2022

medicalcarelegalchangemakesection

2023

legalchangemakemedical

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k5 grants · $39k
$10k–50k15 grants · $234k
$250k+1 grant · $323k

$11,500

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$322,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO$26,500
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT INC$25,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC$25,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED$24,000
MENORAH PARK CENTER FOR SENIOR LIVING$20,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$15,000
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC$12,500
PARK SYNAGOGUE$12,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC$12,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$11,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$10,000
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO$10,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$10,000
MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$10,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 22 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+103%

Still filing today

95%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO
6× · 2018–2023 · $653k · revenue +10%
GC
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $345k · revenue +32%
RA
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $168k · revenue +80%

Funded once

FT
FAIRMOUNT TEMPLE ANSHEI CHESED CONGREGATION
one grant, 2018 · $50k
SM
STELLA MARIS INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +103%
CF
CLEVELAND FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +113%

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.

The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati brings our community together to care for Jews.

Philanthropy

The Montefiore Home

Montefiore provides a comprehensive system of support services related to healthcare needs throughout the aging process. Guided by Jewish values, Montefiore is dedicated to a standard of excellence and personalized care, enabling…

Health

Jewish Community Center of Cincinnati

The Mayerson JCC provides cultural, social, educational and recreational programs to the Jewish Community and general community of Greater Cincinnati.

Recreation & Sports

Foundation for Cincinnati Jewish Seniors

Health

Hillel the Foundation of Jewish

Cincinnati Hillel enriches the lives and strengthens the Jewish identity of Jewish college students in Greater Cincinnati and builds bridges to Jewish life after college.

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Montefiore Housing Corporation

The Weils provides the finest in residential, nursing, and dementia care, with services and amenities at the highest standards of excellence. The Weils is dedicated to enhancing the distinctive lifestyle of its residents above all. The…

Housing & Shelter

Cleveland Museum of Art

To provide a collection of artwork representing achievement of individuals and civilizations, past and present, for the benefit of the public.

Arts & Culture

JewishColumbus

To Enrich Jewish Life & Instill Jewish Pride; Protect Our Community; Connect with Israel & World Jewry; Help Vulnerable Jewish Populations

Religion

Columbus Jewish Foundation

To ensure a supportive, engaged and vibrant future for the Jewish Community.

Philanthropy

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. serves the burial needs of the Greater Cincinnati Jewish community with care and dignity and honors the resting places of our people.

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Cleveland Hillel Foundation Inc

Engage and empower jewish young adults through exceptional programming and experiences that foster active jewish life on and off campus and in the cleveland jewish community.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Cleveland and the most unlike its peers is The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

11%

2,104/19,305

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

21/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,495,000Religion$653,000Other$623,500Food & Nutrition$345,000Arts & Culture$263,500Health$249,500Human Services$93,000

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of ClevelandOH41.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Cleveland Foundation · David & Inez Myers Foundation · Jack Joseph & Morton Mandel Foundation · The Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Peggy & John Garson Family Foundation · Faye Kaplan Charitable Foundation · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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 organisation DAN AND ELLEN ZELMAN 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 316068732 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dan and Ellen Zelman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dan and Ellen Zelman Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DAN AND ELLEN ZELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dan and Ellen Zelman Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DAN AND ELLEN ZELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dan and Ellen Zelman Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph