· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Bea & David Zack Memorial Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 43% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +202%- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +10%
- PJPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +128%
Funded once
OXFAM-AMERICA INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +3%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +117%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
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.
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,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
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…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Second Chances Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE RYR-1 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC EAST BALTIMORE COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Roaring Fork Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds POLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE CIVICS ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC ↗
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.
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
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 The Bea & David Zack Memorial 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.
- 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
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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