How much did Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

hartford

2020

girlshartford

2021

leaguehartford

2022

solomon schechter

2023

jewishhartford

2024

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

03FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $1k
$10k–50k1 grant · $40k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

Bleeding Blue for Good Fund$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFO$40,000
THE MAX CARES FOUNDATION$1,000

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 (FY23–23, $360) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$434k · 35 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$434k

$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%

+60%

Still filing today

37%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

HH
Hartford Hospital
5× · 2018–2022 · $42k · revenue +63%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
2× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +23%
CY
Compass Youth Collaborative
3× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +78%

Funded once

CA
Clark Atlanta Universityi
one grant, 2022 · $50k
RR
Riverfront Recapture
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +20%
NM
NYU Medical Center
one grant, 2020 · $18k

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.

University of Hartford

The university provides a learning environment in which students may transform themselves intellectually, personally and socially.

Education

Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education

Hartford International University for

Hartford international university for religion and peace serves god: by preparing leaders, students, scholars and religions institutions to understand and live faithfully in today's multi-faith and pluralistic world; by teaching, research,…

Education

Yale New Haven Hospital

To provide health care services.

Health

New Haven Center for Performing

The mission of the new haven center for performing arts is to promote and foster an appreciation for the performing arts through the ownership and operation of indoor and outdoor performing arts facilities; to serve the local community by…

Arts & Culture

Connecticut Trust for Historic

Interacts with other groups, individuals and organizations to encourage, advocate and facilitate historical preservation throughout connecticut.

Arts & Culture

Hartford Historic Preservation

To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.

Philanthropy

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

Connecticut News Project Inc

The mission is to produce original, in-depth, nonpartisan journalism that informs connecticut residents about the impact of public policy, holds governments accountable, and amplifies diverse voices and perspectives.

Arts & Culture

The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

Urban League of Greater Hartford Inc

The urban league of greater hartford promotes the self-empowerment of individuals and families in the connecticut capital region in order to achieve educational, occupational, and economic equality for themselves and their families.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/28

the rest of the field

3,606/38,405

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, 2017–2025.

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)

25/26

Grantees still filing

21/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$513,095Education$49,658Health$45,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Youth Development$13,300Arts & Culture$11,000Philanthropy$6,000

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Edgemer Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family · Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc

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 Eric & Jessica Zachs 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: THE MAX CARES FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +53% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 474568220 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 THE MAX CARES FOUNDATION, 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 6 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 1% 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.

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How do I get to Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eric & Jessica Zachs 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.

Eric & Jessica Zachs 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, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Eric & Jessica Zachs 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, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph