· Private foundation
Marie & John Zimmermann Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sacred Heart University | $65,000 |
| Peter's Valley Craft Center Inc | $60,000 |
| The Dream Program Inc | $57,000 |
| Decorative Arts Trust | $45,000 |
| Chashama Inc | $40,000 |
| Hands in 4 Youth Inc | $35,000 |
| New York Historical Society | $31,000 |
| Fairfield University | $30,000 |
| Shelburne Museum Inc | $25,000 |
| Dwight Hall at Yale | $21,000 |
| Society of North American Goldsmiths | $16,000 |
| CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FON OF THE ENDLESS MOUntains | $15,000 |
| Center for Initiative Art & Culture | $12,500 |
| Landmark School | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
28 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SHSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED3× · 2022–2024 · $190k · revenue +21%
PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +48%- TDTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CCColby College Concentrationone grant, 2023 · $25k
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +42%- MZMARIE ZIMMERMANN CENTER FOR ARTSone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
The museum's mission is to celebrate maine's role in american art. to accomplish that mission the museum provides an extensive offering of collections, exhibitions, education and retail services to the general public.
Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).
The school for advanced research's mission is to advance understanding of humanity through a unique alchemy of creative practice and scholarly research in native american arts, anthropology, and related disciplines. its vision is to be a…
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Queen City Cats. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds HANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CHASHAMA INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICAN GOLDSMITHS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INITIATIVES IN ART & CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH CHARITABLE MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HINESBURG COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERY MERRY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION ↗
- Who funds Queen City Cats ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds DEATH WITH DIGNITY NATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAIL BEYOND CANCER VT INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA DRAGONS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marie & John Zimmermann Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Hands in for Youth Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.