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Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation

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$16k
Granted FY2019
2
Grants FY2019
2
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$10,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$10,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Total assets, FY2019
$2.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Arts & CultureInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20192$16k100%
FY20188$46k75%
FY20177$45kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$73kHealth$11kHousing & Shelter$10kInternational$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChamber Music Detroit: $20,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Perlman Music Program Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Perlman Music Programsuncoast Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOne Breath at a Time Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFjk Dance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOut Youth Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Detroit Institute of Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman 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.

About Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation

How much does Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation give?
Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $15,500 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Health (9%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Chamber Music Detroit ($21k), The Perlman Music Program Inc ($11k), Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation ($10k).
Does Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation based?
Erwin and Isabelle Ziegelman Foundation is based in NY.

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 15 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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