· Private foundation
The Robert E and Polly A Zimmerman Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k20 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Washburn University Foundation | $8,500 |
| Catholic Charities | $5,000 |
| New Mexico State Univ Fdn | $4,000 |
| Alpha Pointe | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Dona Ana Humane Soc | $3,000 |
| Sister Servants of Mary | $3,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces | $3,000 |
| El Caldito Soup Kitchen | $3,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | $3,000 |
| North Texas Food Bank | $2,000 |
| Embrace Grace | $2,000 |
| Jewish Community Ctr | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–26, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WUWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION10× · 2017–2026 · $79k · revenue +262%
- AALPHAPOINTE10× · 2017–2026 · $54k · revenue +34%
- NMNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc10× · 2017–2026 · $20k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- MLMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRYone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -15%
- CCCatholic Charities of NEone grant, 2021 · $7k
- HSHFE Share It Forwardone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
End hunger together.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Club of Las Cruces. 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.
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 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHAPOINTE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAS CRUCES ↗
- Who funds EL CALDITO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds JUST HOMES ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Embrace Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds BASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ADVOCATES FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KC COMMON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Hall Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Servant Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Health Forward 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 Robert E and Polly A Zimmerman 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.
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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