How much does Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation give?

Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $100,807 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 52 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Environment (15%), Education (10%).

Who are Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc ($40k), As You Sow ($40k), Trustees of Tufts College ($30k).

Does Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.

Where is Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation based?

Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation is based in MA.

Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation

Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Randi and David Zussman 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.

$101k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$121kEnvironment$99kEducation$66kPhilanthropy$58kArts & Culture$46kHousing & Shelter$45kYouth Development$34kFood & Nutrition$33kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $31k
$10k–50k7 grants · $70k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AS YOU SOW	$10,000
ACTIVE MINDS	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE	$10,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
KISS THE GROUND	$10,000
AANE ASPERGERAUTISM NETWORK	$8,000
AMPLIFIER	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$5,000
HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION	$4,000
J M BARRY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWTON	$2,500
THE ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF GREATER BOSTON	$2,500
MOTHERS MILK BANK OF NE	$1,257
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$1,047

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$441k · 59 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102

Total granted

$441k

$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+14%

Still filing today

69%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationInternationalOther

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

AF
ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +65%
Trustees of Tufts College
3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%
2C
2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC
5× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +992%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $11k
CF
CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -56%
CA
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -2%

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.

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

Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Green Newton 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

88 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. 88 of the 177 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

87/88

Grantees still filing

61/88

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$441,714Health$69,009Housing & Shelter$41,200Human Services$33,975Education$31,100Food & Nutrition$25,000Arts & Culture$24,000

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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA32.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The George and Louise J Hauser Charitable Trust · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · GivenGain Foundation USA · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc

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 Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Randi and David Zussman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

20get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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