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Ka Zankel 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| MUSICIANS ON CALL | $75,000 |
| THE FILM COLLABORATIVE | $60,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $40,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FLORENCE INC | $30,000 |
| MET COUNCIL INC | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC | $25,000 |
| THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC | $25,000 |
| AUDUBON CANYON RANCH | $20,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE BOOK AND LITERARY FESTIVAL INC | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO ROCK PROJECT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Ka Zankel 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, 32% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 29% — 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 +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- MOMUSICIANS ON CALL INC6× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +161%
- TSThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis5× · 2017–2022 · $223k · revenue +564%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION3× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +72%
- WIWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -41%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +28%
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.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playing for Change Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. 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 31 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 — 1% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 108 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 MUSICIANS ON CALL INC ↗
- Who funds The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH-CARY JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Florence ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NORCAL GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA FAMILY MEAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds SHANTI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL 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: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · Impactassetsinc · Messing Family Charitable Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners 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 organization Ka Zankel 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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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