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Max & Pauline Zimmer Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASORTI FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENT | $22,500 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $20,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON | $20,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND INC | $20,000 |
| CAMP RAMAH | $15,000 |
| WEST SIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTD CIR | $10,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOC BEN-GURION UNIVERSIT | $10,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $559k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- WJWESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +85%
- SCSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +30%
- CRCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- AHAMIRIM HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CSCALIF STATE UNIV NORTHRIDGEone grant, 2017 · $7k
- ECEARLHAM COLLEGE THEATER ARTS PROGRAone grant, 2024 · $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.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The jewish agency-american section, inc. (jaas) was organized to work with and in support of non profit organizations active in the fields of immigration and absorption in israel; youth care and training; teaching of hebrew and jewish…
Creating, organizing and administering student and educator educational programs regarding the state of israel and/or other jewish communities throughout the world, through the sponsorship of limited duration group educator and student…
To educate, enrich and empower visually impaired people across israel to achieve their full potential and become contributing members of society.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The aish school was created to provide jewish adult education in a non judgmental, apolitical, and inspiring way. the aish school offers classes in most areas of jewish life and culture, including but not limited to: jewish law, history,…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
Founded so jews, worldwide, can join together in partnership, ensuring our common good and coolective survival. the council acts in the belief that the key to successfully countering threats against the jewish people and the state if…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westside Jewish Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nami National. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 35 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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KESHET EILON INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Trauma Resource Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SISTAHFRIENDS ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM BY CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Max & Pauline Zimmer Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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