· Private foundation
Dorothy Zimmerman Charitable Trust
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Misfit Acres Inc | $2,000 |
| Wild Lands Wild Horses Fund Corp | $2,000 |
| Standarbred Retirement Foundation | $2,000 |
| Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc | $2,000 |
| Bergen County Horse Rescue | $2,000 |
| Ramapo Bergen Animal Refuge Inc | $1,500 |
| Peace 4 Paws | $1,500 |
| Second Change for Animals Inc | $1,000 |
| Shore Saves | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| START | $1,000 |
| National Disaster Search Dog Foundation | $1,000 |
| Friends of Bergen County Animal Shelter | $1,000 |
| Front Range Freedom Rescue Inc | $1,000 |
| East Maui Animal Refuge | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
50 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 15 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- BCBERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +49%
- TOTHE OASIS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +84%
- CACloster Animal Welfare Society Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TWTeh Wild Bird Fundone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Animal Welfare
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Animal Welfare
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guardians of Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. 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.
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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 74 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 BERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OASIS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BERGEN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER T/A FOCAS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LIFE SAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds Closter Animal Welfare Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HI-TOR ANIMAL CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Harmony Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANS OF RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD CAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE D BAR RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Pet Adoption League Inc ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO-BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds STRAY FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds SOS Beagle Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds FORTUNATE POCHES & LAB RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST MAUI ANIMAL REFUGE ↗
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: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Tapestry Foundation Inc · Petco Love · The Winnick Family Foundation Inc · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · Greater Good Charities · Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc · Bruce G Geary Foundation · Dj and T 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 Dorothy Zimmerman Charitable Trust 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.
- People for Animals Inc — 1% of income from government
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.