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Jason E Zidell Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$197k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$43,333
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Jason E Zidell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureOther
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 arriving12$192k8%
FY202412$103k0%
FY202312$83k8%
FY202214$94k0%
FY202114$87k0%
FY202016$92k6%
FY201916$90k19%
FY201717$78kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$160kReligion$115kYouth Development$109kHealth$95kHuman Services$91kRecreation & Sports$66kFood & Nutrition$40kArts & Culture$34kOther$0

Top grantees

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

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All grantees of Jason E Zidell Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catlin Gabel School$105,33380%
B'Nai Brith Men's Camp Association$66,02080%
Morrison Child and Family Services$60,50080%
Outside In$53,00080%
Portland Jewish Academy$49,60080%
Native American Youth and Family Center$48,00080%
Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation$42,00060%
Oregon Food Bank$40,00050%
Oregon Symphony Association$30,00050%
New Avenues for Youth Inc$30,00030%
Outside the Frame$27,50071%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization$25,00030%
The Oregon Zoo Foundation$13,00050%
Israel Tech Mission Inc$10,0001n/a
Smart Reading$5,00020%
Portland Art Museum$4,00010%
Rebecca Bender Initiative$2,50011%
Congregation Neveh Shalom$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($204k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jason E Zidell Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatlin Gabel School: $105,333 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetB'Nai Brith Men's Camp Association: $66,020 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMorrison Child and Family Services: $60,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOutside In: $53,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Jewish Academy: $49,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNative American Youth and Family Center: $48,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Garcia Memorial Foundation: $42,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Symphony Association: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Avenues for Youth Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOutside the Frame: $27,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetThe Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oregon Zoo Foundation: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSmart Reading: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebecca Bender Initiative: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 16.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Juan Young Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Jay and Diane Zidell Charitable Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Careoregon Inc

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 Jason E Zidell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jason E Zidell 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 Jason E Zidell Foundation

How much does Jason E Zidell Foundation give?
Jason E Zidell Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $197,266 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Jason E Zidell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Religion (14%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Jason E Zidell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catlin Gabel School ($105k), B'Nai Brith Men's Camp Association ($66k), Morrison Child and Family Services ($61k).
Does Jason E Zidell Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jason E Zidell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jason E Zidell Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, Oregon Jewish Community Foundation.
Where is Jason E Zidell Foundation based?
Jason E Zidell Foundation is based in OR.

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 24 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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