How much did THE BILL AND ANN ZIFF FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE BILL AND ANN ZIFF FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

langmusicfestival

2019

musicfestival

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$41,500

Median grant

States reached

$373k

Total assets

Largest grants

METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION$41,500

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$31M · 16 repeat orgs$994k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -9% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$31M

$994k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%

Still filing today

31%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthScience & TechPhilanthropyOther

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

METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC
5× · 2019–2024 · $13M · revenue -9%
MO
METROPOLITAN OPERA
2× · 2017–2018 · $9.4M
LC
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
6× · 2017–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +63%

Funded once

MS
MANHATTAN SCH MUSIC
one grant, 2018 · $100k
WS
WORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -8%
WJ
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -28%

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.

Los Angeles Opera Company

See part iii and schedule othe los angeles opera company (la opera) is a non-profit entity organized to provide an opportunity for all to enjoy the rich emotional and cultural experience of opera.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Opera Association

The world-renowned san francisco opera is considered one of the most important operatic organizations in the united states. great singing, outstanding conducting and productions sensitive to the music are core values of the opera. the…

Arts & Culture

Foundation for Modern Opera

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Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

The Dallas Opera

Performance of opera productions, education and community engagement programs.

Arts & Culture

Detroit Opera

The mission of detroit opera is to be one of the outstanding opera companies in the unted states and, in particular, to serve as a major cultural resource to the city of detroit and the state of michigan.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.

Education

San Diego Opera Association

The mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community engagement and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as part of its…

Arts & Culture

Maryland Lyric Opera

Arts & Culture

Pittsburgh Opera Inc

To produce a range of artistic and educational programs to engage and enrich the community.

Arts & Culture

Boston Opera Collaborative

Stage live opera performances.

Arts & Culture

Winter Opera St Louis

Provide people of st. louis an evening of opera during winter months, to invest in local artists, and to enhance public appreciation for opera in st. louis.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Opera Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

10,118/120,736

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.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/24

Grantees still filing

10/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$16,355,366Other$15,207,569Education$120,000Science & Tech$100,000Environment$25,000Philanthropy$25,000International$10,000Health$1,000

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Howard and Sarah D Solomon · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Wallace Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment 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 organisation THE BILL AND ANN ZIFF 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

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MCO CULTURAL EXCHANGE CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 954804461 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MCO CULTURAL EXCHANGE CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Bill and Ann Ziff Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BILL AND ANN ZIFF FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bill and Ann Ziff Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE BILL AND ANN ZIFF FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bill and Ann Ziff Foundation?

More from the funding graph