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The Zankel Scala Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$701k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$243kHealth$171kFood & Nutrition$114kHuman Services$66kPublic Benefit$65kRecreation & Sports$50kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT ANNS SCHOOL$200,000
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$200,000
WHYHUNGER INC$45,000
CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE$20,000
WE ARE MOVING THE NEEDLE INC$15,000
THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION$15,000
BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC$15,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO$15,000
SLAPPY AND MONDAYS FOUNDATION FORLAUGHTER$10,000
CIRCUSENSE$10,000
MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
HEAD COUNT INC$10,000
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$10,000
ABORTION CARE NETWORK$8,000
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 (FY21–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $5k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF CHICAGO: $15k → 14%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $5k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $3k → 17%BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $3k → 17%LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $3k → 7%LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $2k → 7%LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $2k → 7%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $9k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $8k → 17%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

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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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of The Zankel Scala Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Zankel Scala Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 51 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
22

Total granted

$2.4M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-2%

Still filing today

98%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $732k · revenue +27%
  • SA
    SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $705k · revenue +21%
  • SA
    Slappy and Monday's Foundation for Laughter
    4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SU
    SERVICEMEMBERS UNDERTAKING DISABLED SPORTS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -27%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%

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.

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
3
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
4
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
5
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
8
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
9
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Projectexplorer Ltd. 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 backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Charter and Preparatory Sch…Professional Trade Associat…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Service ClubsGovernance & Civic ReformPerforming Arts Organizatio…Hospital Systems and Senior…
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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/81
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,679

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.

05the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 84 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
46/80
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SKIDMORE COLLEGE — $732,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGESAINT ANN'S SCHOOL — $705,000 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOLTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE — $200,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE+5 more — $91,000 · EducationWHYHUNGER INC — $106,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INCST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $67,500 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WARE…MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $39,500 · Arts & CultureMANN CENTER F…BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureBRIC ARTS MED…Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $13,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $48,750 · Arts & Culture+16 moreCIRCUSENSE INC — $50,000 · OtherCIRCUSENSE …BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $30,000 · OtherBROOKLYN AC…THE BROOKLYN WOMEN'S EXCHANGE INC — $21,000 · OtherTHE BROOKLY…THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $15,000 · OtherTHE DIVIDED…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE I — $10,000 · OtherCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherCHARLOTTESV…THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $16,000 · OtherTHE CAMPAIG…NEW YORK THERAPY ANIMALS INC — $15,000 · OtherNEW YORK TH…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY — $10,000 · Other+22 more — $85,429 · Other+22 moreSlappy and Monday's Foundation for Laughter — $70,000 · HealthABORTION CARE NETWORK — $34,000 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $17,000 · HealthNational Women's Health Network — $12,500 · HealthSERVICEMEMBERS UNDERTAKING DISABLED SPORTS — $10,000 · Health+4 more — $9,500 · HealthHEAD COUNT INC — $60,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $14,500 · Civil RightsTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesDay One of New York Inc — $7,500 · Human ServicesLIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $7,080 · Human ServicesIntermountain Therapy Animals — $5,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $10,000 · InternationalHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · International
Education$1,728,000Arts & Culture$312,250Other$277,429Health$153,000Civil Rights$74,500Human Services$66,580International$36,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $732,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL — $705,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE — $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $106,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSlappy and Monday's Foundation for Laughter — $70,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $67,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCIRCUSENSE INC — $50,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetUSA PATRIOTS VETERAN ATHLETICS — $40,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $39,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK — $34,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC — $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN WOMEN'S EXCHANGE INC — $21,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetWE ARE MOVING THE NEEDLE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THERAPY ANIMALS INC — $15,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $14,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Women's Health Network — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICEMEMBERS UNDERTAKING DISABLED SPORTS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDay One of New York Inc — $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $7,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Heights Association Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DEBATE SOCIETY LTD — $5,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntermountain Therapy Animals — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHANDICAP INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENSECRETS — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Community Foundat…Price Chopper's Golub…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…The Mitzen Foundation…Brooklyn Community Fo…The Howard Gilman Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal FundThe Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Mitzen Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Zankel Scala 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 · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries — 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Zankel Scala Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Zankel Scala 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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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