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Pzena Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Pzena Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$87kReligion$69kYouth Development$48kArts & Culture$23kPhilanthropy$11kHousing & Shelter$10kEducation$8kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS$20,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$18,000
CSC REPERTORY LTD$10,000
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION$5,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $250 → 14%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

WA
NY
NJ
CT
CA
DC
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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22k · 4 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
26

Total granted

$22k
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CR
    CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    2× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +58%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • MS
    MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TH
    THE HONEY FOUNDATION FOR ISRAEL
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • II
    IMENTOR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +30%
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
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
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

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
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
6
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smbc Global Foundation 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

25 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. 25 of the 36 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITYTHE HONEY FOUNDATION FOR ISRAEL: $50,000 · OtherTHE HONEY FOUNDATION FOR ISRAELLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $20,000 · OtherLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INCCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $18,000 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUECSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $12,500 · OtherCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANYIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+13 more: $19,670 · Other+13 moreIMENTOR INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMENTOR INCUNITY GAMES INC: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNITY GAMES…SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 · HealthSHATTERPRO…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 · HealthBLOOD CANC…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,500 · HealthMEMORIAL S…+3 more: $1,250 · HealthICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $5,272 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 · EducationPACE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationSMBC GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationMRCC FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationCohome Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPORTFOLIOS WITH PURPOSE INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $5,000 · International+1 more: $18 · International
Other$180,170Youth Development$26,500Health$25,250Education$13,772Housing & Shelter$10,000Philanthropy$10,000International$5,018

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 budgetIMENTOR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINK EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCohome Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPORTFOLIOS WITH PURPOSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $5,272 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY GAMES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMBC GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMRCC FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOVERLOOK FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Charities of America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $18 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Pzena Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pzena Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 36 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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