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The Fran and Irwin Ziegelheim Foundation at a glance

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The Fran and Irwin Ziegelheim 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.

$500
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$25kHealth$5kEducation$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kReligion$836Social Science$500Public Benefit$300Food & Nutrition$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH HOME FAMILY: $10k → 7%JEWISH HOME FAMILY: $5k → 7%JEWISH HOME FAMILY: $500 → 7%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

WI
NY
NJ
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 8 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
24

Total granted

$26k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+23%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH HOME FAMILY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +8%
  • FL
    FRANKLIN LAKES VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE JONATHAN BURKLUND
    2× · 2019–2022 · $1k · revenue +31%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2017–2024 · $527 · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • NB
    NAOMI BERRIE DIABETIC CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • TA
    THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -8%
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH OR
    one grant, 2018 · $500
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
American Diabetes Association

The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Health
9
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Franklin Lakes Fire Department Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 33 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH HOME FAMILY INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH HOME FAMILY INCJEWISH HOME FOUNDATION: $6,190 · OtherJEWISH HOME FOUNDATIONNAOMI BERRIE DIABETIC CENTER: $2,500 · OtherNAOMI BERRIE DIABETIC CENTERJEWISH HOME FAMILY SERVICES: $2,468 · OtherJEWISH HOME FAMILY SERVICESTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION+17 more: $2,876 · Other+17 moreFRANKLIN LAKES VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE JONATHAN BURKLUND: $1,250 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $527 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $250 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $100 · Health+1 more: $15 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 · EducationFRANKLIN LAKES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $350 · Public Safety & DisasterFeeding America: $200 · Food & NutritionThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$15,500Other$15,034Health$2,542Education$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$350Food & Nutrition$200Arts & Culture$25

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 budgetTHE JEWISH HOME FAMILY INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN LAKES VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE JONATHAN BURKLUND: $1,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $527 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN LAKES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $15 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Fran and Irwin Ziegelheim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fran and Irwin Ziegelheim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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 · 0–20%
    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.

    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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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