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Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bleeding Blue for Good Fund | $50,000 |
| Solomon Schechter School | $50,000 |
| Koby Mandell Foundation | $10,000 |
| Hartford Hospital | $10,000 |
| Voice of Hope | $5,400 |
| Hartford Jewish Sports Hall of Fame | $5,000 |
| Breakthrough T1D | $5,000 |
| Wonder Girls USA Inc | $2,500 |
| Jewish LinksInc | $1,800 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENT | $330 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- SSSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC3× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +68%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $66k · revenue +79%
- HHHartford Hospital7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- CAClark Atlanta University Incone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -3%
- RRRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -9%
- NMNYU Medical Centerone grant, 2020 · $18k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Act Up Theater Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 87 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 BBFG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAX CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds MEOR INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut
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 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.
- IQuilt Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc — 81% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- Compass Youth Collaborative — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Intensive Education Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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