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· Private foundation

Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
319
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$17MEducation$16MHuman Services$16MCommunity Improvement$14MHealth$9.7MPhilanthropy$6.3MYouth Development$5.8MEnvironment$3.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 319 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k167 grants · $612k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k81 grants · $7.3M
  • $250k+16 grants · $9.6M
$7,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$422M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UWM FOUNDATION$3,500,000
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC$800,000
THE BRIDGE PROJECT$562,500
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (CDA)$500,000
LE JARDIN ACADEMY$500,000
REVITALIZE MILWAUKEE$500,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE$500,000
SOJOURNER FOUNDATION$400,000
HOUSING RESOURCES INC$355,000
LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC$350,000
WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORP$324,000
REVITALIZE MILWAUKEE$300,000
GUEST HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE$275,000
WISCONSIN WATCH$266,667
CASTLE MEDICAL CENTER DBA ADVENTIST HEALTH CASTLE$260,000
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 (FY18–25, $13.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Ho'ola Na Pua: $370k → 9%ROOTED & RISING WASHINGTON PARK: $180k → 17%United Methodist Children's Services of WI Inc: $125k → 17%United Methodist Children's Services of WI Inc: $125k → 17%St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care: $100k → 17%St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care: $100k → 17%Data You Can Use Inc: $100k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $100k → 17%Data You Can Use Inc: $100k → 17%Hale Kipa Inc: $100k → 9%HOSPICE HAWAII DBA NAVIAN HAWAII: $200k → 9%Neu-Life Community Development Inc: $180k → 17%NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $100k → 17%Neu-Life Community Development Inc: $100k → 17%Neu-Life Community Development Inc: $100k → 17%Neu-Life Community Development: $100k → 17%Neu-Life Community Development: $100k → 17%Social Development Foundation: $100k → 17%Social Development Foundation: $100k → 17%UniteWI: $150k → 17%WALKER'S POINT YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER: $100k → 17%Journey House Inc: $325k → 17%Journey House: $250k → 17%Journey House: $250k → 17%Journey House: $250k → 17%Journey House Inc: $200k → 17%Journey House: $200k → 17%Journey House: $200k → 17%Journey House: $200k → 17%Journey House: $163k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $163k → 17%United Community Center: $100k → 17%Journey House: $100k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 17%United Community Center: $100k → 17%United Neighborhood Center of Milwaukee: $150k → 17%YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee: $125k → 17%Data You Can Use: $118k → 17%DATA YOU CAN USE: $108k → 17%Data You Can Use: $100k → 17%Data You Can Use: $100k → 17%United Neighborhood Center of Milwaukee: $100k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $211k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $181k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $134k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $133k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $133k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $125k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89M · 234 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

234 repeat relationships: 118 still active in FY2025, 116 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

234
309

Total granted

$89M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+16%

Still filing today

77%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $955k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +0%
  • LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +224% · 54% of their budget
  • Revitalize Milwaukee Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +93% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • UF
    UWM Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $1.3M
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    one grant, 2017 · $905k
  • RR
    Running Rebels Community Organization, Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
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
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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2
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
3
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
4
Milwaukee Development Corporation

-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…

Community Improvement
5
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc

The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
7
Mutual Housing Association of Hawaii

The mission of the organization (mhah) is to develop, own and manage multi-family rental communities serving families earning 20 to 80 percent of median income. mhah will assist its target families to become more self sufficient through…

Housing & Shelter
8
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment
9
Hawaii Island Community Development Corporation

Hawaii island community development corporation was established on july 7, 1986, to provide families with low and moderate income with adequate housing and to acquire, construct and provide housing related activities.

Housing & Shelter
10
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
11
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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12
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cure Ald Foundation. 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

343 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. 343 of the 579 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.

20
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
87
Early backer (in before they grew)
333/343
Grantees still filing
222/343
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC: $4,676,845 · OtherLAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA …Individual grant recipient: $1,365,500 · OtherUWM Foundation: $1,285,714 · OtherRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $1,806,500 · Other+111 more: $25,794,466 · Other+111 moreRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $3,800,500 · Housing & ShelterRevitalize Milwauk…WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION: $2,947,000 · Housing & ShelterWALNUT WAY CONSERV…ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,376,000 · Housing & ShelterACTS COMMUNITY DEV…COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $1,425,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY DEVELOPM…HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $1,285,500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING RESOURCES …The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $1,121,500 · Housing & ShelterThe Guest House of…MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST LTD: $630,000 · Housing & ShelterIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $568,000 · Housing & Shelter+8 more: $2,018,140 · Housing & Shelter+8 moreTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $9,950,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATIO…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $2,576,428 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WIS…Pearls for Teen Girls Inc: $1,281,000 · EducationPearls for Teen G…Marquette University: $691,534 · Education+2 more: $530,700 · EducationJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $2,776,500 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE IN…SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $1,140,500 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY…UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,134,300 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY…HO'OLA NA PUA: $1,122,945 · Human ServicesHO'OLA NA PUADATA YOU CAN USE INC: $988,151 · Human ServicesDATA YOU CAN USE…NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $927,200 · Human ServicesNEU-LIFE COMMUNI…KUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $514,800 · Human ServicesUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE: $500,000 · Human Services+20 more: $4,848,300 · Human Services+20 moreTHE BRIDGE PROJECT INC: $1,728,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $1,309,780 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,069,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $617,500 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC: $570,500 · PhilanthropySOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $525,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $519,800 · PhilanthropyCastle Medical Center dba Adventist Health Castle: $1,715,000 · HealthPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $904,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $795,000 · HealthPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $752,500 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN HAWAII: $358,500 · HealthHealth Connections Incorporated: $302,500 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $257,500 · Health+8 more: $1,054,500 · HealthCLARKE SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE IN: $1,400,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $848,000 · Community ImprovementFORWARD COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC: $809,000 · Community ImprovementRIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $691,041 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $481,500 · Community ImprovementURBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $477,500 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $470,000 · Community ImprovementEzekiel Community Development Corp: $305,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $172,500 · Community Improvement
Other$34,929,025Housing & Shelter$16,171,640Education$15,029,662Human Services$13,952,696Philanthropy$6,339,580Health$6,140,000Community Improvement$5,654,541

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $9,950,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetLAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC: $4,676,845 over 8y, 54% of budgetRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $3,800,500 over 8y, 36% of budgetWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION: $2,947,000 over 8y, 26% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $2,776,500 over 8y, 41% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $2,576,428 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,376,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $1,806,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetTHE BRIDGE PROJECT INC: $1,728,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCastle Medical Center dba Adventist Health Castle: $1,715,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $1,425,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCLARKE SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE IN: $1,400,000 over 8y, 81% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $1,309,780 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC: $1,285,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $1,281,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $1,140,500 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $1,137,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,134,300 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $1,122,945 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $1,122,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $1,121,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,069,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDATA YOU CAN USE INC: $988,151 over 8y, 35% of budgetNEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $927,200 over 8y, 17% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $904,500 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $848,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $813,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFORWARD COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC: $809,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $795,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetPROJECT VISION HAWAII: $752,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $740,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetLE JARDIN ACADEMY INC: $699,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMarquette University: $691,534 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $691,041 over 8y, 10% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $674,947 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST LTD: $630,000 over 5y, 95% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $617,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFONDY FOOD CENTER INC: $607,500 over 7y, 22% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC: $576,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC: $570,500 over 7y, 51% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $568,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $517,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetKUALOA-HEEIA ECUMENICAL YOUTH PROJECT: $514,800 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE: $500,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $481,500 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetURBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $477,500 over 6y, 22% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $470,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC ↗
  • Who funds Revitalize Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Castle Medical Center dba Adventist Health Castle ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARKE SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE IN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DATA YOU CAN USE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
  • Who funds LE JARDIN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST LTD ↗

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Green Bay Packers Fou…Anon Charitable TrustWeiss Family Foundati…Northwestern Mutual L…Brewers Community Fou…Youth Foundation IncAloha United Way Inc
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI155× affinity128 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Weiss Family Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Aloha United Way 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    73report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc 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 579 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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