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The Mona & Edward Zander Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$938k
Granted FY2022
29
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2022.

Health$1.3MEducation$1.1MYouth Development$383kArts & Culture$125kAnimals$30kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$16kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$232k
02FY2022 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k15 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$8,740
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCSF FOUNDATION$250,000
MAYO CLINIC$250,000
HELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC$125,000
SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$25,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$25,000
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MONTEREY$22,500
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$21,053
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY$15,000
SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART$11,070
CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
MCCALLUM THEATRE FOUNDATION$8,740
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $10k) 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BETWEEN FRIENDS OUTREACH: $5k → 6%PARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
ND
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
DE
TN
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 25 repeat orgs$520k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
25

Total granted

$1.9M
$382k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+13%

Still filing today

84%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $225k · revenue +8%
  • GR
    GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $179k · revenue +74%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County
    3× · 2020–2022 · $133k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    one grant, 2020 · $210k · revenue +13%
  • MM
    MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -47%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
4
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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7
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
12
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert Louis Stevenson School and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Food PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%63%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,924

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC — $750,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $225,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTHGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $179,000 · HealthGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONEisenhower Medical Center — $70,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH — $50,000 · Health+5 more — $60,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $752,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISC…Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $210,000 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteNorth Dakota State University Foundation — $42,106 · Education+9 more — $51,400 · EducationHELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentHELPING FRIEN…Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County — $133,167 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls …THE CAREY SCHOOL — $36,500 · OtherTHE CAREY…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — $25,000 · OtherBIG BROTH…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $22,500 · OtherTRUSTEES …PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS — $20,629 · OtherPHILADELP…BIGHORN BEHIND A MIRACLE — $20,000 · OtherBIGHORN B…CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL INC — $16,500 · OtherCARDINAL …RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · OtherRENSSELAE…CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL — $13,940 · OtherCONGREGAT…SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART — $11,070 · OtherSACRED HEART CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherCan Do Multiple Sclerosis — $10,000 · OtherALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC — $10,000 · OtherAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Other+14 more — $34,540 · Other+14 moreSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureMONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMcCallum Theatre Foundation Inc — $26,220 · Arts & CultureCURIODYSSEY — $17,500 · Arts & CultureCARMEL MISSION FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County — $16,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE — $3,500 · AnimalsMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 — $10,000 · Human ServicesBETWEEN FRIENDS OUTREACH INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $5,000 · Human Services
Health$1,334,500Education$1,056,006Youth Development$383,167Other$255,679Arts & Culture$124,720Animals$29,500Human Services$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $752,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC — $250,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $210,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $179,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County — $133,167 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation — $42,106 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $37,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CAREY SCHOOL — $36,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMcCallum Theatre Foundation Inc — $26,220 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURIODYSSEY — $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURRIKI — $14,650 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCan Do Multiple Sclerosis — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARMEL MISSION FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC — $3,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIED PIPER PLAYERS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUN VALLEY CULINARY INSTITUTE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOOD RIVER WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Peninsula College Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTCH PLAINS FANWOOD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Zander Family Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Greater Houston Commu…Monterey Peninsula Fo…The David and Lucile …American Endowment Fo…Frisone Family Founda…Donald Lee and Sally …Greene Van Arsdale Fo…Nancy Eccles and Home…
Zander Family Foundation IncID30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zander Family Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Frisone Family Foundation · Donald Lee and Sally Steadman Lucas · Greene Van Arsdale Foundation co KKR Accounting Services LLC · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family 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 The Mona & Edward Zander Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Mona & Edward Zander Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Mona & Edward Zander Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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