· Private foundation
William and Sylvia Zale Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $62,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $50,000 |
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER | $35,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $25,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OPERATION ISRAEL INC | $20,000 |
| FROTH AND BUBBLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FROTH AND BUBBLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FAIRHILL SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDISRAEL FRIE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUND AND ENDOWMEN | $10,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE PLAYERS | $10,000 |
| CENTER 12 INC FKA LAMDA CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TX HILL COU | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $378k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- TLTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +91%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE4× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +17%
- FAFroth and Bubble Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCEone grant, 2024 · $75k
- JJDCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Houston (JFGH) works with partner organizations and members of the community to create a thriving and vibrant Jewish community here in Houston, in Israel, and around the world.
We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Federation amplifies our collective strength to make the world a better place for everyone. we assist people in need, impact chicagoans of all faiths; support israel and the jewish people worldwide; respond swiftly to crises; cultivate…
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…
Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas and the most unlike its peers is Inter-Mountain Humane Society. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 70 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 THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Credit Union Foundation ↗
- Who funds Froth and Bubble Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds WEECYCLE ↗
- Who funds FAIRHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Frazier Revitalization Inc ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KESHET INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Laurie and Todd Platt Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 William and Sylvia Zale 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.
- Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
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.