· Private foundation
The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k174 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $441k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $800k
- $250k+10 grants · $8.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $1,316,702 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| JEWISH CENTER OF THE HAMPTONS | $750,000 |
| FLOATING DOCTORS | $500,000 |
| LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $400,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $300,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $200,000 |
| WNET | $150,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $100,000 |
| AGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $100,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
183 repeat relationships — 109 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 84 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $685k 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
- WCWildlife Conservation Society3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +2%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +69%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- WMWilliam & Mary Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +366%
- HUHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
- FFIMRCone grant, 2023 · $300k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Realty Foundation of New York 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 41 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
233 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. 233 of the 391 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds William & Mary Foundation ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc ↗
- Who funds MicrobeTV Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PARASITES WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds FLOATING DOCTORS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH ↗
- Who funds Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FORK NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I ↗
- Who funds Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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: The New York Community Trust · Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · The Jct Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Kate Cassidy Foundation · David B Kriser Foundation Inc · J & Ar Foundation · The Robert and Joyce Menschel Family Fdn
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 Donald and Barbara Zucker Family 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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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