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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 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 2025.

Philanthropy$14MEducation$12MInternational$5.1MReligion$1.0MPublic Benefit$1.0MHuman Services$401kCivil Rights$390kCrime & Legal$328kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
AMCHA INITIATIVE #46-0774311$100,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JEWISH STATESMENSHIP CENTER INC #26-3398241$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
CHABAD JEWISH STUDENT CENTER #26-0800573$25,000
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID #11-3466176$25,000
EL MEDIO INC #47-3064050$25,000
COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING #52-1332702$25,000
RAJE USA INC #27-3335956$25,000
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 (FY17–20, $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 its 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
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
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
  • MI
    MEOR INC CO LOKETCH & PARTNERS LLP #51-0430002
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Sherit Isroel
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 99 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 HILLEL OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Gush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman ↗

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.

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

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 Mz Foundation Attn Myron Zimmerman President funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mz Foundation Attn Myron Zimmerman President. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.

    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 99 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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