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Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust at a glance

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Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel 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.

$63k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$253kEducation$98kYouth Development$12kHealth$5kReligion$500Philanthropy$300Social Science$100Environment$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$955k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$30,000
FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST$11,175
JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,500
MOUNT SINAI$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$100
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GETTING TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $300 → 15%GREEN SCIENCE POLICY: $5k → 10%FELIX Y MANALO FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $56k → 17%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%NATIONAL ROSACEA SOCIETY: $100 → 14%TRINITY HALL: $1k → 6%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $5k → 11%GREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $100 → 10%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $45k → 17%DENISON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $5k → 11%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30k → 17%THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $5k → 11%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 17%YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH: $500 → 17%THE HARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $26k → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $16k → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $11k → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $11k → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $11k → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $2k → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $2k → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $1k → 17%FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $900 → 17%KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER: $225 → 17%ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS IN ISRAEL: $11k → 17%ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS IN ISRAEL: $750 → 17%PBS THIRTEEN: $7k → 17%WNET THIRTEEN: $975 → 17%THE NATHANIEL WHARTON FUND: $15k → 17%THE NATHANIEL WHARTON FUND: $3k → 17%CHARLOTTE WHITE'S SALON DI VIRTUOSI: $1k → 17%THE NATHANIEL WHARTON FUND: $2k → 17%CHARLOTTE WHITE'S SALON DI VIRTUOSI: $500 → 17%THE NATHANIEL WHARTON FUND: $2k → 17%FILOMEN M D'AGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL: $500 → 17%CHARLOTTE WHITE'S SALON DI VIRTUOSI: $125 → 17%CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY: $3k → 17%CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY: $1k → 17%CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI: $5k → 17%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$360k · 11 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$360k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+24%

Still filing today

82%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalReligionOther
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

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +89%
  • FC
    FINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +41% · 44% of their budget
  • THE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TH
    Trinity Hallgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +68%
  • WNET
    one grant, 2017 · $975 · revenue -15%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education
9
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

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10
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
11
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Hall; the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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

19 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. 19 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $206,900 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE+5 more: $7,595 · Arts & CultureFINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $79,569 · PhilanthropyFINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI AS…THE NATHANIEL WHARTON FUND: $21,500 · OtherTHE NATHANIE…Individual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual g…MOUNT SINAI: $5,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAIIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual g…CHARLOTTE WHITE'S SALON DI VIRTUOSI: $1,625 · Other+7 more: $1,725 · OtherTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $15,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC: $11,750 · InternationalYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $500 · ReligionHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $100 · HealthNATIONAL ROSACEA SOCIETY: $100 · Health
Arts & Culture$229,495Philanthropy$79,569Other$41,350Education$17,500International$11,750Religion$500Health$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $206,900 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetFINCH COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION TRUST: $79,569 over 9y, 44% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC: $11,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONIE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTrinity Hall: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $525 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELIX Y MANALO FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $95 over 1y, 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundJewish Federation of …Combined Jewish Phila…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hedy Davis Kaye Zankel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Hun School of Princeton: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 27 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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