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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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$427kRecreation & Sports$124kHealth$122kPhilanthropy$47kYouth Development$42kArts & Culture$33kInternational$28kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Solomon Schechter School$50,000
Bleeding Blue for Good Fund$50,000
Koby Mandell Foundation$10,000
Hartford Hospital$10,000
Voice of Hope$5,400
Breakthrough T1D$5,000
Hartford Jewish Sports Hall of Fame$5,000
Wonder Girls USA Inc$2,500
Jewish LinksInc$1,800
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENT$330
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $5k → 17%JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $5k → 17%JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $300 → 17%Hands On Hartford: $360 → 11%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

MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$742k · 44 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
38

Total granted

$742k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+26%

Still filing today

64%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • SS
    SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +68%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $66k · revenue +79%
  • HH
    Hartford Hospital
    7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • CA
    Clark Atlanta University Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -3%
  • RR
    RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -9%
  • NM
    NYU Medical Center
    one grant, 2020 · $18k
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
University of Hartford

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.

Education
3
Fordham University

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.

Education
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
5
The Jewish High School of Connecticut

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.

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6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Fairfield University

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.

Education
11
Yale University

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

Education
12
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 87 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)
50/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BBFG FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherBBFG FOUNDATION INCSolomon Schechter School: $83,962 · OtherSolomon Schechter SchoolJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFO: $40,868 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFOCOLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $21,750 · OtherNYU Medical Center: $18,000 · OtherGUSSIE WORTHAM FOUNDATION INC: $16,500 · OtherCharter Oak Boxing Academy: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+46 more: $114,769 · Other+46 moreSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: $70,243 · EducationSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GR…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $66,385 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUN…Clark Atlanta University Inc: $50,000 · EducationClark Atlanta University IncSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $32,500 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYCornell University: $30,000 · EducationCornell University+9 more: $34,918 · Education+9 moreHartford Hospital: $52,500 · HealthHartford Hos…CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $24,930 · HealthCONNECTICUT …BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH…+3 more: $4,660 · HealthTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentACT UP THEATER INC: $1,800 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCapitol Squash Inc: $2,750 · Recreation & SportsWonder Girls USA Inc: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $300 · Recreation & SportsHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,760 · Arts & CultureWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $17,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $500 · Civil Rights
Other$425,849Education$284,046Health$102,090Youth Development$40,800Recreation & Sports$30,550Arts & Culture$22,260Civil Rights$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBBFG FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: $70,243 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $66,385 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Hospital: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $24,930 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $10,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,223 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC: $6,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $6,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAX CARES FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEOR INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCapitol Squash Inc: $2,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $2,520 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetiQuilt Partnership Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $2,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACT UP THEATER INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH LINKS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND JEWISH ACADEMY: $1,038 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTENSIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY INC: $1,020 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC: $860 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $660 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON HARTFORD INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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 The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds MAX CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MEOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT36.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 87 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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