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

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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Civil Rights$350kPhilanthropy$189kArts & Culture$155kHealth$113kReligion$81kHuman Services$10kAnimals$5kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $400
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$893k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$50,000
CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$20,000
KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$20,000
PROMISE FUND$12,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$400
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MAKE A HOME FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $10k → 11%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 28% of The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim)’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim)lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 39% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$764k · 11 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$764k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+6%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +116%
  • RF
    RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +72%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $73k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PALM SPRINGS DESERT MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TE
    TEMPLE EMANU-EL
    one grant, 2023 · $21k
  • TF
    THE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +133%
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
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
4
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
5
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
6
Jgs Administrative Services Inc

To provide administrative support to jgs lifecare corporation.

Health
7
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
8
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
9
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc

Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…

Health
10
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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11
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

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 Make a Home Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $350,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEFEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPY: $75,000 · OtherFEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPYCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF WESTCHESTER: $60,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF WESTCHES…THE NORTON MUSEUM: $40,000 · OtherTHE NORTON MUSEUMTHE PALM SPRINGS DESERT MUSEUM: $25,000 · OtherTHE PALM SPRINGS DESERT MUSEUMCHRON'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $24,500 · OtherCHRON'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF…TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $21,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELPROMISE FUND: $12,000 · Other+6 more: $10,400 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $72,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH …JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F K…RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRICHARD TUC…White Plains Hospital Medical Center: $45,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthTHE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $2,000 · Human ServicesMAKE A HOME FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Human ServicesADOPT-A-DOG INC: $4,500 · Animals
Civil Rights$350,000Other$267,900Philanthropy$113,500Arts & Culture$90,000Health$68,000Human Services$12,500Animals$4,500

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 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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
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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For John Dalsheim) 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 John Dalsheim). 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 John Dalsheim) 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.

    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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