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The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For Joan Dalsheim Nevin) at a glance

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The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For Joan Dalsheim Nevin)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$264kEducation$217kHealth$89kReligion$72kCivil Rights$20kHousing & Shelter$17kPhilanthropy$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
$7,009
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$20,000
GREEN'S FARMS CHURCH$20,000
MIAMI CITY BALLET$20,000
HORIZONS AT SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$7,009
HOMES WITH HOPE$5,466
ADAM J LEWIS FOUNDATION$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$3,000
THE ROWAN CENTER$1,000
TED THOMAS DANCE FOUNDATION$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 17%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

ME
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
NC
DC
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 20 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
19

Total granted

$607k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+25%

Still filing today

60%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • Elon University
    5× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +42%
  • RF
    RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +37%
  • TW
    THE WASHINGTON BALLET
    4× · 2017–2021 · $61k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +116%
  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +54%
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
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Gries Family Foundation. 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

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PER…THE WASHINGTON BALLET: $61,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHINGTON BALLETMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INCWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $36,500 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC+2 more: $3,300 · Arts & CultureElon University: $125,000 · EducationElon UniversityBucknell University: $30,000 · EducationBucknell UniversityST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INCSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $22,009 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPOR…+2 more: $3,200 · EducationGreen's Farms Church: $40,000 · OtherGreen's Farms ChurchNORTON MUSEUM: $40,000 · OtherNORTON MUSEUMTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $31,500 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELHOMES WITH HOPE: $17,466 · OtherHOMES WITH HOPEADAM J LEWIS FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Other+16 more: $33,700 · Other+16 moreWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $35,000 · HealthWhite Plai…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $22,900 · HealthCROHN'S & …PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $8,000 · HealthPROMISE FU…+1 more: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 · Civil RightsTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPINK AID INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $400 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · International
Arts & Culture$220,800Education$205,209Other$169,166Health$67,400Civil Rights$20,000Philanthropy$17,900International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetElon University: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $61,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $36,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $22,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $22,009 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $17,466 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINK AID INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Yellow Tulip Project: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRIES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLIS CC FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $200 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Fairfield County's Co…Jerlyn FoundationThe James & Mary Elle…Viking Global Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jerlyn Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For Joan Dalsheim Nevin) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For Joan Dalsheim Nevin). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For Joan Dalsheim Nevin) 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.

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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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