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The Clementine Zacke Foundation at a glance

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The Clementine Zacke Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$211kEducation$83kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$851k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH$26,000
Individual grant recipient$15,600
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$1,000
MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA$1,000
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$1,000
FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$1,000
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$1,000
ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY$1,000
KEISER UNIVERSITY$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$1,000
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARTIN COUNTY$400
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 8%FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 10%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $28k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $2k → 13%KEISER UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $1k → 27%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 29%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $28k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $1k → 13%KEISER UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $1k → 15%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $1k → 27%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $27k → 10%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $1k → 13%INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $1k → 14%MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1k → 15%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $26k → 10%INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $26k → 10%INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $21k → 10%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $20k → 10%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $18k → 10%IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $18k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $17k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $17k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $16k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $16k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $16k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $12k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $12k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $11k → 10%TREASURE COAST HOSPICES: $11k → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$409k · 14 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$409k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+75%

Still filing today

21%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARTIN COUNTY
    4× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +84%
  • BU
    Belmont University
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +43%
  • PB
    PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • FG
    FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • JU
    Jacksonville Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +75%
  • FI
    FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
4
University of Miami
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5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
7
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
9
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
10
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
11
Lynn University Inc

Founded in 1962 and located in boca raton, florida, lynn university is an independent, coeducational institution accredited by the southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges (sacscoc). (continued in sch o)the…

Education
12
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Institute of Technology Inc; the most unlike its peers is Education Foundation of Martin County. 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

10 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. 10 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $210,518 · OtherIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $126,310 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $28,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA+14 more: $42,500 · Other+14 moreBelmont University: $2,500 · EducationPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500 · EducationJacksonville University: $1,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $1,000 · EducationFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,000 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,000 · EducationCornell University: $1,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARTIN COUNTY: $2,932 · Philanthropy
Other$407,328Education$10,000Philanthropy$2,932

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARTIN COUNTY: $2,932 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBelmont University: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJacksonville University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $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.

  • Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
  • Who funds ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Clementine Zacke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clementine Zacke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • St Thomas University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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 Clementine Zacke Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Clementine Zacke 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 26 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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