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Raymond Zimmerman 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.

$727k
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$174k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Philanthropy$891kReligion$421kHuman Services$373kHealth$231kEducation$182kArts & Culture$91kInternational$72kRecreation & Sports$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $473k
$1,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JDC$173,952
Jewish Federation of NashvilleMiddl$157,500
Jewish Family Services - Ruth Rales$90,829
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEA$50,998
LEFFELL SCHOOL$44,218
JCC of Mid Westchester$21,675
Boca Raton Regional Hospital$20,018
Individual grant recipient$15,966
Jewish Book Council$13,772
Individual grant recipient$12,863
United way of Metropolitan Nashvill$10,000
PJ Library$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS$10,000
CHASE FAMILY$8,173
Chabad of Southwest Broward$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Our Place: $360 → 14%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $25 → 10%Marcus Jewish Community Center: $37 → 14%SID JACOBSON JCC: $250 → 6%Huckleberry House: $36 → 15%Hospice of Palm Beach County: $36 → 11%Hospice of Palm Beach County: $18 → 11%VICTORY LIVING PROGRAMS: $150 → 13%Hands on Tzedakah Inc: $7k → 11%Hands on Tzedakah Inc: $5k → 11%Hands on Tzedakah Inc: $4k → 11%ALIVE HOSPICE: $104 → 14%Hands on Tzedakah Inc: $2k → 11%FIFTYFORWARD: $25 → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $990 → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $990 → 14%GORDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $939 → 14%Adolph Rose Levis Jewish Community: $180 → 11%Gordon Jewish Community Ctr of Nash: $903 → 14%AgeWell Middle Tennessee: $100 → 14%AgeWell Middle Tennessee: $100 → 14%AgeWell Middle Tennessee: $100 → 14%AgeWell Middle Tennessee: $100 → 14%AgeWell Middle Tennessee: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
CO
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 100 repeat orgs$359k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
201

Total granted

$2.8M
$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+6%

Still filing today

38%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +28%
  • JB
    JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +90%
  • DZ
    DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue +56%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • J
    JLCFI
    one grant, 2021 · $22k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

3
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
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
National Jewish Health

National Jewish Health's mission since 1899 is to heal, discover and educate as a preeminent healthcare institution. We serve by providing the best integrated and innovative care for patients and their families; by understanding and…

Health
6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
8
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
9
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
10
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
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsPublic Library OperationsLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsYouth Development CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesDevelopmental Disabilities …Cancer Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Jewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/134
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,431

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 339 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/113
Grantees still filing
68/113
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JDC — $977,352 · OtherJDCJewish Federation of NashvilleMiddl — $481,780 · OtherJewish Federation of NashvilleMiddlJewish Family Services - Ruth Rales — $298,863 · OtherJewish Family Services - Ruth RalesTHE LEFFELL SCHOOL — $105,421 · OtherJCC of Mid Westchester — $99,997 · Other+154 more — $840,928 · Other+154 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $165,151 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $82,530 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — $30,050 · PhilanthropyUnited Wa…THE GIVING BACK FUND — $16,000 · Philanthropy+10 more — $11,503 · PhilanthropyVanderbilt University Medical Center — $101,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $85,572 · Health+8 more — $11,844 · HealthJEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC — $59,548 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $5,103 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $1,220 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $17,550 · InternationalISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC — $11,094 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $7,536 · InternationalPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC — $2,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel — $2,000 · InternationalHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC — $17,200 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE — $5,761 · Human Services+3 more — $1,110 · Human ServicesDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $22,000 · Animals
Other$2,804,341Philanthropy$305,234Health$198,416Arts & Culture$65,871International$40,180Human Services$24,071Animals$22,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $165,151 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $101,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc — $85,572 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $82,530 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC — $59,548 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc — $30,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $17,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC — $17,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC — $11,094 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $7,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAKIVA SCHOOL — $7,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYAS HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $6,028 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NASHVILLE — $5,761 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Israel Fund — $5,720 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $5,103 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABE'S GARDEN — $3,110 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH Middle SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIGHT STEP INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND AMONG FRIENDS INC — $1,536 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $1,325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION — $1,072 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKOLEL TORAH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVets Helping Heroes Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc — $978 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPENCIL FOUNDATION — $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY ORG — $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF GREATER NASHVILLE DBA AGE WELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUR KINDNESS INC — $500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $378 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION — $376 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
  • Who funds JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc
  • Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
  • Who funds HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC
  • Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND
  • Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION

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.

The Blum Family FoundationTN26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blum Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Frist Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Doochin Family Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Jane and Richard Eskind and Family Foundation · The John and Heidi Hassenfeld Family Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family 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 Raymond Zimmerman Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 240%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation49% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc5% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Raymond Zimmerman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Raymond Zimmerman Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 339 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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