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The Zimmer Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Zimmer Family Foundation Inc

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.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$228kEducation$35kEnvironment$32kHuman Services$28kReligion$24kCrime & Legal$15kPhilanthropy$12kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND$10,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$5,000
GC RELIEF$4,000
ATONEMENT LUTHERAN CHURCH$3,000
WHITE RAINBOW PROJECT$3,000
OF MOUNTAINS AND MEN$2,500
CIRENAS INC$2,000
AERIAL RECOVERY$2,000
NATIONAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIAT$2,000
GREG LENTZ MINISTRIES$2,000
SHADE$2,000
SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL INC$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PET FLORIDA-PENNEY FARMS INC: $10k → 9%LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $5k → 19%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

NH
WA
ID
MN
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of The Zimmer Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Zimmer Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% 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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129k · 10 repeat orgs$269k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
37

Total granted

$129k
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • UW
    Ugandan Water Project
    3× · 2019–2022 · $23k · revenue +196%
  • ED
    ECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND
    2× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • SC
    Summit Charter School Foundation
    5× · 2019–2023 · $14k · revenue +280%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EXODUS ROAD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +235%
  • SI
    SHARED INTEREST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -31%
  • DO
    DESIGN OUTREACH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +42%
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
Empowering Lives International

Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…

Religion
2
Kingdom Investment International Inc

Kingdom Investment works among the poor and oppressed to bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God that results in holistic transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Religion
3
Partnership for Indigenous Peoples -Pipes - International

We are a global Christian organization committed to partnering with indigenous peoples, local churches, and community-based organizations to make disciples of Jesus Christ and help end extreme poverty. We serve indigenous pygmies,…

International
4
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
5
Sower of Seeds International Ministries

SOS provides assistance to poor and marginalized people in the USA & other countries. SOS feeds the hungry, drills water wells, contributes to schools and operates an orphanage. SOS also rescues and rehabilitates victims of sex trafficking.

Religion
6
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
7
Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…

International
8
The Filter Project

The Filter Project is a parachurch ministry whose mission is to pour Gods love into under-resourced communities through the gift of safe, filtered, drinking water in Kenya and plan to serve into additional countries in the future.

International
9
Living Water International

Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Human Services
10
Water to Thrive

Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference

International
11
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
12
World Renew

Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shared Interest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Of Mountains and Men. 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

49 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. 49 of the 56 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
28/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ugandan Water Project: $23,000 · InternationalUgandan Water ProjectTHE EXODUS ROAD INC: $15,000 · InternationalTHE EXODUS ROAD INCSHARED INTEREST INC: $15,000 · InternationalSHARED INTEREST INCLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $13,000 · InternationalLITTLE SISTERS FUND INCKUDA VANA PARTNERSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $11,000 · InternationalKUDA VANA PARTNERSHIP INTERNATIONALWATER COMPASS INC: $10,000 · InternationalECHO Inc: $10,000 · InternationalDESTINY RESCUE USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $10,000 · InternationalWorld Hope International Inc: $10,000 · InternationalPRESERVE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalFlutemaker Ministries Inc: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDLY WATER FOR THE WORLD: $9,580 · InternationalHope Seeds Inc: $7,100 · International+8 more: $30,000 · International+8 moreRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesRAIN FOR THE…PET FLORIDA - PENNEY FARMS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPET FLORIDA …THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIFE OF …THE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FREEDOM …MAISON FORTUNE ORPHANAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesMAISON FORTU…CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC INC: $8,000 · OtherCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFA…THE HOPE MOVEMENT: $8,000 · OtherTHE HOPE MOVEMENTSOCIO-CULTURAL AFRO-AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherSOCIO-CULTURAL AFRO-AMER…ATONEMENT LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherREACH OUT MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · OtherREACH OUT MINISTRIES INCOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc: $4,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDA…Glory Reborn Inc: $5,000 · OtherGlory Reborn IncEmmanuel Academies Inc: $11,000 · OtherEmmanuel Academies IncJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,000 · OtherTHE WHITE RAINBOW PROJECT: $3,000 · OtherHOPE TO WALK INC: $4,000 · Other+9 more: $18,500 · Other+9 moreSummit Charter School Foundation: $14,000 · EducationETHIOPIA READS: $5,000 · EducationSummit Charter School: $5,000 · EducationECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $20,000 · EnvironmentDESIGN OUTREACH INC: $13,086 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association: $12,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,500 · Civil Rights
International$193,680Human Services$43,000Other$84,500Education$24,000Environment$20,000Housing & Shelter$18,086Civil Rights$14,500

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 budgetUgandan Water Project: $23,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $18,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE EXODUS ROAD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHARED INTEREST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSummit Charter School Foundation: $14,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDESIGN OUTREACH INC: $13,086 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKUDA VANA PARTNERSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $11,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEmmanuel Academies Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWATER COMPASS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetECHO Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDESTINY RESCUE USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPET FLORIDA - PENNEY FARMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Hope International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFlutemaker Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFRIENDLY WATER FOR THE WORLD: $9,580 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHope Seeds Inc: $7,100 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetETHIOPIA READS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWater4Life Ministry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetGlory Reborn Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSummit Charter School: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Literacy and Development: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREACH OUT MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROAD TO HOPE OF HAITI: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMAISON FORTUNE ORPHANAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Firstfruits Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE TO WALK INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLOVE NEVER FAILS INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHITE RAINBOW PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDEEMER CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCIRENAS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetElam Ministries: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHADE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAERIAL RECOVERY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCH SHEETS MINISTRIES 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.

Christian Community F…Cpps Heritage Mission…Give Lively Foundatio…Natl Christian Charit…ImpactassetsincServant FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…The Chicago Community…Edward Jones Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…
Christian Community Foundation IncCO13.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Cpps Heritage Mission Fund · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Impactassetsinc · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment 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 Zimmer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zimmer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to The Zimmer Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Zimmer Family Foundation Inc 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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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