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The Bea & David Zack Memorial Foundation at a glance

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The Bea & David Zack Memorial 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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$325kHousing & Shelter$223kFood & Nutrition$160kEnvironment$155kCrime & Legal$147kEducation$90kHuman Services$88kHealth$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $230k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU FOUNDATION$35,000
JUST-A-START CORPORATION$30,000
PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER$30,000
CASA OF MARYLAND INC$30,000
BLACK WOMEN BUILD - BALTIMORE$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$15,000
HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS$15,000
EAST END HOUSE INC$10,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$10,000
SECOND CHANCES$10,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$10,000
RYR-1 FOUNDATION$3,000
MUSIC HOUSE$2,000
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 (FY20–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAST END HOUSE INC: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10k → 16%SECOND CHANCES: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10k → 16%SECOND CHANCES: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10k → 16%SECOND CHANCES: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $5k → 16%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%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
MI
NY
MA
PA
UT
CO
MD
DC
AL
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 12% of The Bea & David Zack Memorial Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 43%.

The Bea & David Zack Memorial Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$1.1M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+24%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +10%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +202%
  • PJ
    PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +16%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +117%
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.

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Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
10
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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…

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12
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc. 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

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $100,600 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $85,000 · OtherHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INCTHE UMB FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherTHE UMB FOUNDATIONAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $70,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONCASA OF MARYLAND INC: $30,000 · OtherCASA OF MARYLAND INCPAUL'S PLACE INC: $49,600 · OtherPAUL'S PLACE INCOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $26,100 · Other+12 more: $60,500 · Other+12 moreSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $150,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CE…PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $107,000 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER I…POLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $150,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL…+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,000 · Civil RightsBlack Women Build - Baltimore Inc: $98,000 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSecond Chances Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesEAST END HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementHISTORIC EAST BALTIMORE COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementRoaring Fork Community Development Corporation: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$516,800Crime & Legal$267,000Environment$155,000Civil Rights$102,000Housing & Shelter$98,000Human Services$97,500Community Improvement$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $150,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $150,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC: $107,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $100,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Women Build - Baltimore Inc: $98,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPAUL'S PLACE INC: $49,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Chances Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $26,100 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC EAST BALTIMORE COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRoaring Fork Community Development Corporation: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetEAST END HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKARAM FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Cambridge Community F…Eastern Bank Foundati…Tides FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
Cambridge Community FoundationMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cambridge Community Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 The Bea & David Zack Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bea & David Zack Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Paul's Place Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • East End House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Health Care for the Homeless Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Bea & David Zack Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bea & David Zack Memorial 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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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