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Sylvia Ziontz Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$205k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Health$215kHuman Services$215kPhilanthropy$30kEmployment$15kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$100,000
HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CANCER WELLNESS CENTER$25,000
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 (FY17–19, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $5k → 7%BEVERLY FARM FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%BEVERLY FARM FOUNDATION: $200 → 12%GREAT POTENTIALS INC: $15k → 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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$395k · 4 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$395k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthOther

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

  • HC
    HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · $210k · revenue +43%
  • IC
    ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +27%
  • BF
    BEVERLY FARM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • GP
    GREAT POTENTIALS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +63%
  • M
    MOMENTA
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +94%

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
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
2
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
3
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
4
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

5
The Skin Cancer Foundation Inc

Public and medical education and research

6
Advanced Medical Research Foundation Incd/B/a Nile Albright Research Fdn

The corporation is organized,and shall be operated, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of, one or more charitable organizations that promote the advancement of medicine, engage in…

Health
7
Chaim Medical Resource Inc

The organization provides support to individuals and families facing the devastating effects of medical crises. they primarily assist with medical referral and guidance services at no cost to the patient, and guide them through the maze of…

Human Services
8
Beth Israel Medical Center

Since its founding, over 120 years ago, as a medical dispensary to meet the needs of the impoverished and underserved jewish community of the lower east side, beth israel medical center has been committed to the care of persons of all…

Health
9
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

10
Childrens Oncology Services Inc

Camp one step by children's oncology services is a leader in providing empowering, supportive, educational, and fun experiences for children (ages birth-19) who have been diagnosed with cancer and their families. we are the only local…

Health
11
Children's Miracle Network

Children's miracle network (dba "children's miracle network hospitals") works to save kids' lives by bringing people together to raise money for children's healthcare in local communities.

Unclassified
12
Ross K Macneill Foundation

End pediatric brain cancer by raising money for research and raising awareness for the diagnosis. our research investments focus on innovative non-toxic therapy development for children.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hephzibah Children's Association and the most unlike its peers is Kids in Danger. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $210,000 · OtherHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATIONISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $150,000 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKids In Danger — $30,000 · OtherKids In Danger+1 more — $10,000 · OtherCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $25,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 · HealthGREAT POTENTIALS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY FARM FOUNDATION — $5,200 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$430,000Health$30,000Human Services$25,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $210,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKids In Danger — $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMOMENTA — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBEVERLY FARM FOUNDATION — $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA — $5,000 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Sylvia Ziontz 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 10 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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