· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +30%
- WJWESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +85%
- 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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Max & Pauline Zimmer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Max & Pauline Zimmer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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