· Private foundation
Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of RANDOLPH AND JOSEPHINE ZELOV CHARITABLE TRUST’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k16 grants · $272k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $94,290 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL | $54,340 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $54,340 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $54,340 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $54,340 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF PHILADELPH | $27,170 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $27,170 |
| BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $27,170 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $27,170 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY SPCA | $13,585 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $13,585 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES | $13,585 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $13,585 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA | $13,585 |
| BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE | $13,585 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Provide a rigorous education and encourage pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Cultic Studies Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Philabundance ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT RETIREMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CULTIC STUDIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Randolph and Josephine Zelov Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.