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The Mona & Edward Zander Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Health$2.1MEducation$425kYouth Development$408kArts & Culture$123kAnimals$33kReligion$29kHuman Services$27kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2022 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$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
HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
MCCALLUM THEATRE FOUNDATION$8,740
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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.

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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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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert Louis Stevenson School; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 65 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherCan Do Multiple Sclerosis: $10,000 · OtherALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $10,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CHURCH: $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 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 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 budgetHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCan Do Multiple Sclerosis: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $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 budgetPARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $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 budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC: $1,000 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.

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

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 Mona & Edward Zander Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mona & Edward Zander Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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