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Dorothy Zimmerman Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$394kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1k
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$312k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Misfit Acres Inc: $2k → 15%Safe Haven Sanctuary: $2k → 9%Hi Tor Animal Care Center: $2k → 14%Woodstock Farm Sanctuary Inc: $2k → 16%Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary: $2k → 12%Standarbred Retirement Foundation: $2k → 6%Peace 4 Paws: $2k → 7%Oasis Animal Sanctuary: $2k → 8%Hillside's People for Animals: $2k → 10%Wild Lands Wild Horses Fund Corp: $2k → 11%SOS Beagle Rescue Inc: $2k → 12%Wildlife Freedom Inc: $2k → 12%Harmony Rescue Inc: $2k → 13%Wild Cat Foundation: $2k → 17%Double D Bar Ranch: $2k → 7%Safe Haven Sanctuary: $2k → 9%Hi Tor Animal Care Center: $2k → 14%The Wild Bird Fund Inc: $2k → 17%Peace 4 Paws: $2k → 7%Oasis Animal Sanctuary: $2k → 8%Hillside's People for Animals: $2k → 10%Wildlife Freedom Inc: $2k → 12%Safe Haven Sanctuary: $2k → 9%Hi Tor Animal Care Center: $2k → 14%Woodstock Farm Sanctuary Inc: $2k → 16%The Wild Bird Fund Inc: $2k → 17%Bergen County Animal Shelter: $2k → 7%Oasis animal Sanctuary Inc: $2k → 8%Hillside's People for Animals: $2k → 10%Wildlife Freedom Inc: $2k → 12%Hi Tor Animal Care Center: $2k → 14%Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc: $2k → 9%Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc: $2k → 9%Bergen County Horse Rescue: $2k → 7%Bergen County Horse Rescue: $2k → 7%Pet ResQ: $2k → 7%Bergen County Horse Rescue: $2k → 7%Bergen County Horse Rescue: $2k → 7%Bergen County Horse Rescue: $2k → 7%Bergen County Horse Rescue: $2k → 7%Friends of Bergen County Animals Shelter - FOCAS: $2k → 7%Friends of Bergen County Animals Shelter - FOCAS: $2k → 7%Taking Care of Paws: $2k → 7%Taking Care of Paws: $2k → 7%Taking Care of Paws: $2k → 7%Unbridled Heroes Project: $2k → 7%Unbridled Heroes Project: $2k → 7%Unbridled Heroes Project: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
HI
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$370k · 50 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
9

Total granted

$370k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+34%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsCivil RightsHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    BERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +49%
  • TO
    THE OASIS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +93%
  • CA
    Closter Animal Welfare Society Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TW
    Teh Wild Bird Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • AP
    A PATHWAY TO HOPE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -13%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
2
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
3
Raskels Rescue
Animals
4
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

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.

Animals
5
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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6
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
7
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
8
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
9
Jl Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
10
Safe At Last Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
11
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
12
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guardians of Rescue Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INC: $14,000 · AnimalsBERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INCTHE OASIS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $13,000 · AnimalsTHE OASIS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INCFRIENDS OF BERGEN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER T/A FOCAS: $12,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BERGEN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER T/A FOCASANIMAL LIFE SAVERS INC: $11,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LIFE SAVERS INCCloster Animal Welfare Society Inc: $11,500 · AnimalsCloster Animal Welfare Society IncHI-TOR ANIMAL CARE CENTER INC: $10,500 · AnimalsHarmony Rescue Inc: $10,400 · AnimalsGUARDIANS OF RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsWILD CAT FOUNDATION INC: $9,900 · AnimalsDOUBLE D BAR RANCH INC: $9,500 · AnimalsSecond Chance Pet Adoption League Inc: $9,400 · AnimalsWILD BIRD FUND INC: $9,000 · AnimalsRAMAPO-BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $8,400 · AnimalsLucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc: $7,000 · Animals+25 more: $60,000 · Animals+25 moreIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNBRIDLED HEROES PROJECT: $10,700 · OtherUNBRIDLED HEROES PROJECTWILDLIFE FREEDOM INC: $10,500 · OtherWILDLIFE FREEDOM INCBergen County Animal Shelter: $10,500 · OtherBergen County Animal ShelterSave the Animals Rescue Team: $10,500 · OtherSave the Animals Rescue TeamFriends of Wayne Animals: $9,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherTaking Care of Paws: $8,600 · OtherFriends of Clifton Animal Shelter: $8,500 · OtherSave the Animals Rescue Team II: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,400 · OtherPassaic Animal Shelter: $8,400 · OtherPequannock Animal Shelter: $8,400 · OtherSt Huberts Animal Welfare Center: $8,400 · OtherTevaland: $8,200 · OtherHillside's People for Animals: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · Other+16 more: $34,700 · Other+16 moreSTANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health
Animals$206,600Other$187,200Civil Rights$2,000Health$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBERGEN COUNTY HORSE RESCUE INC: $14,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE OASIS ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $13,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF BERGEN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER T/A FOCAS: $12,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetANIMAL LIFE SAVERS INC: $11,500 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCloster Animal Welfare Society Inc: $11,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHI-TOR ANIMAL CARE CENTER INC: $10,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHarmony Rescue Inc: $10,400 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetGUARDIANS OF RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWILD CAT FOUNDATION INC: $9,900 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDOUBLE D BAR RANCH INC: $9,500 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetSecond Chance Pet Adoption League Inc: $9,400 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRAMAPO-BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $8,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTRAY FROM THE HEART INC: $6,400 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSOS Beagle Rescue Inc: $5,700 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFreedom Farm Animal Sanctuary: $4,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFORTUNATE POCHES & LAB RESCUE INC: $4,200 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetEAST MAUI ANIMAL REFUGE: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWHISKA HOUSE: $3,400 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPEOPLE FOR ANIMALS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeace4Paws Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE ROAD TRIPS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWILD LANDS WILD HORSES FUND CORP: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetShore Saves: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE FOR ANIMALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOOF DOG RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPeaceable Primate Sanctuary: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 WOODSTOCK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds FORTUNATE POCHES & LAB RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST MAUI ANIMAL REFUGE ↗

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.

Leslie L Alexander Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Petsmart Charities IncThe Tapestry Foundati…Petco LoveThe Winnick Family Fo…The Gerald B Shreiber…Select Equity Group F…Greater Good CharitiesMrs Cheever Porter Fo…Bruce G Geary Foundat…Dj and T Foundation
Leslie L Alexander Foundation IncFL18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorothy Zimmerman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy Zimmerman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • People for Animals Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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