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Mz Foundation Attn Myron Zimmerman President

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of MZ FOUNDATION ATTN MYRON ZIMMERMAN PRESIDENT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k25 grants · $511k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $763k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL CO MARCUS BROTHERS TEXTILES #13-2992985$2,076,000
ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE FUND # 20-8676286$208,250
FUENTE LATINA INC #XXX-XX-XXXX$105,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JEWISH STATESMENSHIP CENTER INC #26-3398241$100,000
AMCHA INITIATIVE #46-0774311$100,000
REPORT INC (NGO MONITOR) #26-2971061$100,000
STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL #46-5347153$100,000
ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA #13-5628475$50,000
ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH #20-4329740$35,000
RIMON CLUB INC #46-1334084$30,000
PROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS #20-3144208$25,000
HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC #77-0575153$25,000
COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING #52-1332702$25,000
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID #11-3466176$25,000
HENRY JACKSON SOCIETY #46-1190785$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES #94-1156622: $1k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES #94-1156622: $1k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES #94-1156622: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$34M · 77 repeat orgs$722k to everyone else

77 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
21

Total granted

$34M
$701k

Still filing today

12%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
InternationalEducationReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • HO
    HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +86%
  • GE
    Gush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman
    9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +296%
  • OM
    OPENDOR MEDIA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • IF
    IPT FOUNDATION #13-4331855
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • ME
    MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE #52-2068483
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • TW
    THE WORLD VALUES NETWORK #11-3483906
    one grant, 2017 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
2
Novachai
Education
3
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
4
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
5
University of Judaism Foundation
6
Jerusalem Seminary

Motivated by the knowledge that the Word of the Lord will go forth from Jerusalem to the Nations, and guided by a commitment to read the New Testament in its first century context, Jerusalem Seminary provides cutting-edge ministry training…

Religion
7
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
8
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
10
New Jewish Narrative Inc

To support a strong and secure israel and to carry out public information activities on the middle east peace issues in the united states.

International
11
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

12
Alliance for Israel

To educate about antisemitism and the campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Facts and Logic About the Middle East Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL CO MARCUS BROTHERS TEXTILES #13-2992985 — $16,358,510 · OtherCENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL CO MARCUS BROTHERS TEXTILES #13-2992985ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE FUND #20-8676286 — $1,335,250 · OtherZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA #13-5628475 — $1,250,000 · Other+89 more — $15,177,839 · Other+89 moreGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman — $165,000 · InternationalFACTS AND LOGIC ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST INC — $60,000 · InternationalSCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST — $30,500 · InternationalPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC — $175,000 · EducationOakland Hebrew Day School — $10,000 · EducationOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $100,000 · ReligionCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $3,000 · Human Services
Other$34,121,599International$255,500Education$185,000Religion$100,000Human Services$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $225,000 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetPROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC — $175,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman — $165,000 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFACTS AND LOGIC ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST INC — $60,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY HILLEL ADVISORY — $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST — $30,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOakland Hebrew Day School — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC
  • Who funds PROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC
  • Who funds Gush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Mz Foundation Attn Myron Zimmerman President 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.

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no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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