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The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$893k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$102k60%
FY20245$113k20%
FY20235$143k40%
FY20227$100k14%
FY20216$93k33%
FY20206$67k33%
FY20196$75k50%
FY20187$92k71%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$350kPhilanthropy$189kArts & Culture$155kHealth$113kReligion$81kHuman Services$10kAnimals$5kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Jewish Committee$350,00070%
Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc$80,00040%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$72,50030%
Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester$60,0003n/a
White Plains Hospital Medical Center$45,00030%
Temple Emanu-El$21,0001n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
Richard Tucker Music Foundation Inc$10,0002n/a
The Ferd and Gladys Alpert Jewish Family & Children Service of Palm Beach C Ounty Inc$10,00010%
Adopt-A-Dog Inc$4,50040%
The Jewish Guild for the Blind$2,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,00010%
Ballenisles Charities Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Hydrocephalus Association$1,00010%
Make a Home Foundation Inc$50010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $350,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $72,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ferd and Gladys Alpert Jewish Family & Children Service of Palm Beach C Ounty Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdopt-A-Dog Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Jewish Guild for the Blind: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHydrocephalus Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake a Home Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim)

How much does The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) give?
The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) reported 5 grants totaling $102,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (39%), Philanthropy (21%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Jewish Committee ($350k), Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc ($80k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($73k).
Does The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) based?
The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) is based in CT.

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 27 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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