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Sturm Zachary Family Foundation at a glance

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Sturm Zachary 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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$345kReligion$131kInternational$48kEducation$36kHealth$35kCrime & Legal$14kCivil Rights$12kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
$3,600
Median grant
9
States reached
$454k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND CLINIC$15,000
BEST BUDDIES$11,800
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY$10,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,250
CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS$5,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL$5,000
CLARION PROJECT$5,000
OPENDOR MEDIA$5,000
JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$3,600
CHABAD - JCC ASPEN$3,600
CELEBRATE THE BEAT$3,600
MISSON KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$2,500
ASPEN HOPECENTER$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COOK INCLUSIVE COMPANY: $250 → 6%PRODUCER HUB INC: $1k → 11%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

IL
NY
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Sturm Zachary Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sturm Zachary Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$461k · 15 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$461k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+14%

Still filing today

93%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationReligionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TA
    THEATRE ASPEN
    6× · 2019–2024 · $314k · revenue +72%
  • AH
    ASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +106%
  • US
    Unreported Story Society
    4× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AF
    ASPEN FLIGHT ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
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
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
2
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
3
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
4
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
5
The Jewish Publication Society

Our mission has always been to enhance jewish literacy through the publication of great books.

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6
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—
8
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
9
Denver Jewish Day School

To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.

Education
10
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
11
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

—
12
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clarion Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unreported Story Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THEATRE ASPEN: $313,750 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ASPENUnreported Story Society: $25,000 · Arts & CultureUnreported Story Society+4 more: $15,400 · Arts & CultureJEWISHColorado: $83,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColorado+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyCHABAD - JCC ASPEN: $26,100 · OtherCHABAD - JCC AS…CLEVELAND CLINIC: $15,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINI…CHILD ADVOCACY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $10,000 · OtherCHILD ADVOCACY …BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL: $5,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRA…ASPEN FLIGHT ACADEMY: $5,000 · OtherASPEN FLIGHT AC…Individual grant recipient: $3,600 · Other+15 more: $20,175 · Other+15 moreBest Buddies International Inc: $13,600 · InternationalJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $12,500 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $10,000 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,600 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,860 · InternationalASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $650 · EducationOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $15,600 · ReligionJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC: $1,800 · ReligionASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,750 · HealthASPEN HOPE CENTER: $5,300 · HealthPathfinders: $2,800 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $2,500 · HealthHEADQUARTERS: $1,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$354,150Philanthropy$84,000Other$84,875International$47,560Education$35,650Religion$17,400Health$17,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHEATRE ASPEN: $313,750 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $83,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetASPEN HIGHER LEARNING FLIGHT ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUnreported Story Society: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOPENDOR MEDIA INC: $15,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $13,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARION PROJECT INC: $9,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN HOPE CENTER: $5,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATE THE BEAT: $3,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPathfinders: $2,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $2,275 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIGHORN SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADQUARTERS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Garden School: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KEHILLAT NOFEI HASHEMESH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Aspen Community Found…Jewish Communal FundColorado Gives Founda…Rocky Mountain Health…Jewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Aspen Community FoundationCO19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sturm Zachary Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sturm Zachary Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 45 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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