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Ka Zankel Foundation at a glance

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Ka Zankel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$610k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.1MHealth$881kEducation$623kAnimals$590kEnvironment$300kHuman Services$241kPublic Benefit$185kInternational$179kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $285k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE$100,000
MUSICIANS ON CALL$75,000
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE$60,000
ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$40,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$35,000
FRIENDS OF FLORENCE INC$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC$25,000
THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION$25,000
FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC$25,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$25,000
MET COUNCIL INC$25,000
AUDUBON CANYON RANCH$20,000
SONOMA LAND TRUST$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO ROCK PROJECT$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION: $115k → 10%ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION: $50k → 10%ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION: $20k → 10%LA LUZ CENTER: $25k → 9%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $5k → 9%FILIPINO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%FILIPINO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%SLICE OUT HUNGER INC: $21k → 17%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $5k → 10%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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Ka Zankel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 29%.

Ka Zankel Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 48 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
50

Total granted

$3.4M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+30%

Still filing today

65%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • MO
    MUSICIANS ON CALL INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +161%
  • TS
    The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis
    5× · 2017–2022 · $223k · revenue +564%
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • WI
    WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -41%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +72%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +28%
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
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
4
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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5
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
8
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
9
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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10
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
12
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playing for Change Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
56/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $261,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUC REGENTS-UC DAVIS VETERINARY MEDICINE TEACHING HOSPITAL: $179,000 · OtherUC REGENTS-UC DAVIS VETERINARY MEDICINE TEACHING HOSPITA…U C REGENTS: $163,000 · OtherU C REGENTSTHE METROPOLITAN MUESUM OF ART: $125,000 · OtherNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO FOUNDATION: $120,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $110,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $100,000 · OtherRALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $100,000 · Other+50 more: $1,258,500 · Other+50 moreMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICIANS ON CALL INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $120,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF…THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $82,459 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORP…Friends of Florence: $80,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of FlorenceNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE F…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $142,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTeachers College Columbia University: $175,000 · EducationTeachers C…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100,000 · EducationThe New Yo…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $75,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…San Francisco Rock Project: $33,500 · EducationSan Franci…CITY ARTS & LECTURES INC: $30,000 · EducationCITY ARTS …Life Learning Academy: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $25,000 · Education+2 moreThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $222,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER: $40,000 · HealthCREATIVITY EXPLORED INC: $25,000 · HealthSan Francisco Fire Fighters Cancer Prevention Foundation: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $22,500 · HealthASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION: $185,000 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesSlice Out Hunger Inc: $21,000 · Human ServicesFilipino-American Development Foundation: $15,500 · Human Services+3 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesSONOMA LAND TRUST: $100,000 · EnvironmentAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $35,000 · EnvironmentWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $100,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 · InternationalPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · International
Other$2,416,500Arts & Culture$969,959Education$458,500Health$325,000Human Services$261,500Environment$215,000International$160,000

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 budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $225,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $222,500 over 5y, 16% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION: $185,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $82,459 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Florence: $80,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $50,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORCAL GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER RESCUE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Rock Project: $33,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCITY ARTS & LECTURES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVITY EXPLORED INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA LUZ CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSlice Out Hunger Inc: $21,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLife Learning Academy: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFilipino-American Development Foundation: $15,500 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…McNabb FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Sonoma County Communi…Silicon Valley Commun…Bothin FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Walter and Elise Haas…ImpactassetsincMessing Family Charit…Sonoma County Vintner…
Marin Community FoundationCA26.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Impactassetsinc · Messing Family Charitable Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners 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 Ka Zankel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ka Zankel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report 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 Ka Zankel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ka Zankel 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.

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 108 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home