· Private foundation
Rose & Isadore Zeman 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| THE JEFFREY BERGER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HANNAH PERETSMAN BREENE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HILLEL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE ZEMAN SCHOOL | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AM FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| UJAMETROWEST | $500 |
| JEWISH WAR VETERANS | $500 |
| RACHEL COALITION | $500 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $500 |
| SPECTRUM 360 | $500 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THThe Hannah Peretsman Breene Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +51%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +42%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +51%
Funded once
American Diabetes Associationone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -4%- DODaughters of Israel Incone grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue -47%
- RMR MARLIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $250
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.
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Hannah Peretsman Breene Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM360 ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Daughters of Israel Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rose & Isadore Zeman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rose & Isadore Zeman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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