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The Zyman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$283k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$89k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

94% of The Zyman Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Zyman Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $283k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
3
’18
3
’19
4
’20
0
’21
0
’22
6
’23
8
’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.9MHealth$493kHuman Services$485kEducation$224kFood & Nutrition$100kArts & Culture$20kReligion$10kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $198k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Age Well Senior Services Inc$88,965
Translational Pulmonary and Immunology Research$59,045
CHOC Foundation$50,000
Limb Kind Foundation Inc$25,000
Pace Academy Inc$20,000
Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School$18,000
Little Baby Face Foundation$15,000
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation$5,000
Temple Bat Yahm$1,800
Shalom Congregation SynagogueChabad North Beach$500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JAFCO JEWISH ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE OPTIONS INC: $32k → 13%Jewish Home for the Aging of Orange County: $137k → 10%Corazon De Vida Foundation: $95k → 10%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.
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$465k · 10 repeat orgs$1000k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$465k
$775k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+36%

Still filing today

50%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • LC
    LEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $112k · revenue +162%
  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +10%
  • PA
    PACE ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • JH
    JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $137k · revenue -9%
  • TT
    THE TRANSLATIONAL PULMONARY AND IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $119k · revenue +8%
  • SC
    SERJESS CHARITABLE FUND DONOR ADV F
    one grant, 2019 · $118k
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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
2
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Inc

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron

To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.

Health
4
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
5
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
6
Pediatric Specialty Group Inc

Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…

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7
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
8
Children's Hospital & Medical Center

To improve the life of every child - through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education.

Health
9
Metropolitan Jewish Home Care Inc

Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…

Health
10
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
12
Children's Healthcare of California

The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choc Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Limb Kind Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,741,286 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more: $17,000 · PhilanthropySERJESS CHARITABLE FUND DONOR ADV F: $118,117 · OtherSERJESS CHARIT…Translational Pulmonary and Immunology Research: $109,045 · OtherTranslational …SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOOD ALLERGY IN: $100,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CALIF…Age Well Senior Services Inc: $88,965 · OtherAge Well Senio…VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHI…LEHRMAN DAY SCHOOL: $35,968 · OtherLEHRMAN DAY SC…JAFCO JEWISH CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $26,800 · Other+13 more: $111,520 · Other+13 moreTHE TRANSLATIONAL PULMONARY AND IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER: $119,410 · HealthCHOC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50,000 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthLimb Kind Foundation: $25,000 · HealthTHE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY: $137,428 · Human ServicesCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $95,200 · Human ServicesJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $31,800 · Human ServicesLEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $111,900 · EducationPACE ACADEMY INC: $40,000 · EducationTARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $36,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$3,758,286Other$665,415Health$344,410Human Services$264,428Education$187,900Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,741,286 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY: $137,428 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL PULMONARY AND IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER: $119,410 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEHRMAN COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC: $111,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAge Well Senior Services Inc: $88,965 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc: $31,800 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLimb Kind Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMiami Children's Health System Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIAMI BEACH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Argyros Family Founda…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY16.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Argyros Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Zyman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zyman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 48%
  • Voices for Children Foundation Inc: 48% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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 Zyman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Zyman 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 36 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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