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Herbert Zimmerman 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.

$52k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$79k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalReligionOther
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
FY2025still arriving11$51k27%
FY202412$31k25%
FY202310$40k30%
FY202211$41k9%
FY202113$41k62%
FY20209$39k56%
FY20199$33k67%
FY20188$40k50%
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$148kYouth Development$75kHealth$27kPhilanthropy$14kHuman Services$13kHousing & Shelter$7kEducation$5kInternational$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
We Want More Inc$45,00022%
Children's Dream Fund Inc$11,00040%
Loudoun Serenity House$4,65031%
James Madison University$3,1251n/a
Starting Right Now$3,00020%
Suncoast Voices for Children Foundation Inc$2,50020%
New Hope for Kids Inc$2,00040%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,00020%
Turning Point USA Inc$2,00010%
Smile Train Inc$2,00010%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
We Want More Inc$45,00022%
Children's Dream Fund Inc$11,00040%
Loudoun Serenity House$4,65031%
James Madison University$3,1251n/a
Starting Right Now$3,00020%
Suncoast Voices for Children Foundation Inc$2,50020%
New Hope for Kids Inc$2,00040%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,00020%
Turning Point USA Inc$2,00010%
Smile Train Inc$2,00010%
City Year Inc$1,50010%
Redeeming Africas Hope Inc$1,5002n/a
The Potter's Inn$1,20010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$1,00010%
The Realm of Caring Inc$1,0001n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc$1,00010%
Global Samaritan Resources Inc$1,0001n/a
In Two Weeks Foundation Inc$1,000125%
Pedal the Cause$1,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,00010%
Bite Me Cancer Inc$1,00011%
Orlando Union Rescue Mission Inc$1,00010%
Joni and Friends$63810%
American Cancer Society Inc$50010%
Special Olympics Inc$50010%
Little Saint Nick Foundation Inc$50010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$50010%
Monastery of St Clare$1031n/a

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWe Want More Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetChildren's Dream Fund Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLoudoun Serenity House: $4,650 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetStarting Right Now: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSuncoast Voices for Children Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Hope for Kids Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Year Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Potter's Inn: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIn Two Weeks Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPedal the Cause: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBite Me Cancer Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOrlando Union Rescue Mission Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoni and Friends: $638 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Saint Nick Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $500 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 23.

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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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL12.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust 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 Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust

How much does Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust give?
Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $51,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Youth Development (25%), Health (9%).
Who are Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: We Want More Inc ($45k), Children's Dream Fund Inc ($11k), Loudoun Serenity House ($5k).
Does Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust based?
Herbert Zimmerman Charitable Trust is based in FL.

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 51 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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