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Donald Zonshine Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$627k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$17M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Donald Zonshine Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$627k33%
FY20237$882k14%
FY20228$964k0%
FY202110$852k10%
FY20209$620k44%
FY20194$598k75%
FY20181$100k100%
FY20173$17kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$2.2MHuman Services$630kHealth$607kFood & Nutrition$365kEnvironment$330kEducation$230kArts & Culture$9kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Donald Zonshine Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Francisco City Impact$2,023,81276%
Hillsides$630,19460%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$330,00054%
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano$260,00030%
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation$220,00056%
I Can Do That Theatre Company$210,00054%
Save the Family Farms$30,0003n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,70010%
Kidnuz$5,00022%
Independent Arts & Media$2,50020%
Always Dream Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($942k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald Zonshine Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco City Impact: $2,023,812 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetHillsides: $630,194 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $330,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFood Bank of Contra Costa and Solano: $260,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $220,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetI Can Do That Theatre Company: $210,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKidnuz: $5,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Donald Zonshine Family Foundation

How much does Donald Zonshine Family Foundation give?
Donald Zonshine Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $627,037 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Donald Zonshine Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (48%), Human Services (14%), Health (13%).
Who are Donald Zonshine Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Francisco City Impact ($2.0M), Hillsides ($630k), American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation ($330k).
Does Donald Zonshine Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald Zonshine Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald Zonshine Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Donald Zonshine Family Foundation based?
Donald Zonshine Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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