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Philip Zwickler Charitable and Memorial Fdn at a glance

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Philip Zwickler Charitable and Memorial Fdn

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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$36kEducation$34kYouth Development$17kArts & Culture$8kPhilanthropy$7kHuman Services$3kPublic Benefit$3kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$90k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE$4,000
FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY$3,000
ACTION CYCLING ATLANTA INC$1,045
GMHC$53
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $3k → 10%FRIENDS OF KAREN: $500 → 9%LGBT NETWORK: $1k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%ART THERAPY PROJECT: $2k → 17%HOUSING WORKS: $1k → 20%BIKE RIDERS: $525 → 11%THE ELM PROJECT: $3k → 9%ACTON CYCLE ATLANTA: $500 → 13%FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY -RWQ PODCAST: $3k → 10%FRACTURED ATLAS: $1k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%ART THERAPY PROJECT: $1k → 17%BADASS BROOKLYN ANIMAL RESCUE: $1k → 20%THE ELM PROJECT: $2k → 9%ACTON CYCLE ATLANTA: $500 → 13%The Foundation for Delaware County - RWQ Podcast: $3k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%THE ART THERAPY PROJECT: $500 → 17%THE ELM PROJECT: $2k → 9%ACTON CYCLE ATLANTA: $500 → 13%The Foundation for Delaware County - RWQ Podcast: $1k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%NEW ALTERNATIVES NYC: $5k → 17%THE ELM PROJECT: $2k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%THE ELM PROJECT: $2k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $500 → 17%THE ELM PROJECT: $2k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%FOODBANK NYC: $500 → 17%THE ELM PROJECT: $2k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%THE ELM PROJECT: $2k → 9%ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CARE: $5k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE: $5k → 17%ASCNYC: $4k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE: $4k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE: $4k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE: $4k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE: $4k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CARE: $4k → 17%ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE: $4k → 17%SAGE: $500 → 17%VILLAGECARE: $3k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $500 → 17%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

NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
GA
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97k · 9 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$97k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+20%

Still filing today

44%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
HealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Cornell University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +59%
  • AS
    AIDS SERVICE CENTER OF LOWER MANHATTAN INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • TE
    THE ELM PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • A
    ASCNYC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • V
    VILLAGECARE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND GAY AND LESBIAN YOUTH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
2
Argus Community Inc

Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Aids Council of Northeastern New York

The mission of the alliance for positive health is to reduce the impact and incidence of hiv/aids and other serious medical and social conditions in northeastern ny.

Health
5
Aid Atlanta Inc

The mission of aid atlanta is to reduce hiv infections and improve the quality of life of its members and the community by breaking barriers and building community. we fulfill that mission by providing an array of comprehensive services…

Health
6
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
7
New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault Inc

The alliance leads new york citys mission to end sexual violence through education, prevention programming, research, and policy change. until we end sexual violence in all forms, we will be here for all survivors and the organizations…

Human Services
8
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project

The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…

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9
Alianza of New Mexico

Alianza's mission is to empower hard-to-reach, vulnerable, and underserved populations through education and supportive services aimed at working with everyone we serve to achieve better outcomes and higher quality of life.

Human Services
10
Center for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc

The center for comprehensive health practice, inc. provides accessible, community-based treatment that integrates primary healthcare with substance use and behavioral health services for all children, adolescents, adults, and families…

Health
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Bailey House Inc

Bailey house's mission is to help transform the lives of people with or at risk of hiv/aids or other chronic illnesses through housing, health services and community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Works Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Jude 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

18 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. 18 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CARE: $9,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR POSITIVE CAREFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY -RWQ PODCAST: $7,225 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY -RWQ…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientASCNYC: $4,000 · OtherASCNYCVILLAGECARE: $2,500 · OtherVILLAGECAREIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT: $1,500 · Other+12 more: $6,765 · Other+12 moreCornell University: $32,055 · EducationCornell UniversityAIDS SERVICE CENTER OF LOWER MANHATTAN INC: $25,000 · HealthAIDS SERVICE CENTER OF LOWE…FOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $3,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COU…+4 more: $853 · HealthTHE ELM PROJECT: $16,259 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ELM PROJECTTHE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORPORATION: $3,052 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSING WORKS INC: $1,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $500 · Community ImprovementST JUDE INC: $20 · Housing & Shelter
Other$37,490Education$32,055Health$28,853Youth Development$16,259Arts & Culture$4,052Community Improvement$1,500Housing & Shelter$20

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $32,055 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS SERVICE CENTER OF LOWER MANHATTAN INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELM PROJECT: $16,259 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ART THERAPY PROJECT CORPORATION: $3,052 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION CYCLING ATLANTA INC: $1,045 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK LEADERSHIP COMMISSION ON AIDS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE INC: $20 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Philip Zwickler Charitable and Memorial Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philip Zwickler Charitable and Memorial Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Philip Zwickler Charitable and Memorial Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 32 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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