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Zander Family 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.

Health$1.1MEducation$973kYouth Development$219kArts & Culture$129kPhilanthropy$36kRecreation & Sports$21kAnimals$16kHuman Services$15kReligion$15kOther$962k
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $451k
  • $250k+2 grants · $650k
$10,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCSF FOUNDATION$400,000
MAYO CLINIC$250,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$200,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$100,000
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$51,000
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE$50,000
HELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MONTEREY COUNTY$41,850
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$27,600
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ROMAN CULTURE$25,000
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$21,052
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$20,000
ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION$20,000
BURLINGAME HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE CULTURAL CENTER (MCCALLUM THEATRE)$12,500
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 (FY24–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 17%GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%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

WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
DE
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 15 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
35

Total granted

$1.5M
$820k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+0%

Still filing today

87%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • GR
    GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $127k · revenue +56%
  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • HF
    HELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue +19% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $210k
  • RP
    RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $210k
  • LP
    Lucille Packard Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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 Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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5
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
7
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
8
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
11
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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12
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert Louis Stevenson School and the most unlike its peers is The American Institute for Roman Culture Inc. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts OrganizationsJewish Community FederationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Land Conservation Organizat…Public University Foundatio…Classical Music EnsemblesYouth Development CentersCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Health Centers
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%70%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 69 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)
46/46
Grantees still filing
24/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC — $600,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICEisenhower Medical Center — $200,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical CenterGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $127,000 · HealthGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONSCRIPPS HEALTH — $100,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTHAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · Health+5 more — $43,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $750,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FR…North Dakota State University Foundation — $63,158 · EducationNorth Dakota State University F…LAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $55,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $40,000 · Education+6 more — $65,010 · Education+6 moreMAYO CLINIC — $250,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICIndividual grant recipient — $210,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY — $210,000 · OtherRENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSIT…Lucille Packard Foundation — $100,000 · OtherLucille Packard FoundationIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · Other+28 more — $187,502 · Other+28 moreBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County — $104,300 · Youth DevelopmentHELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentZ GIRLS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $79,632 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ROMAN CULTURE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMcCallum Theatre Foundation Inc — $13,740 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCURIODYSSEY — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $400 · Arts & CultureBIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC — $19,175 · PhilanthropyWOOD RIVER WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HAWN FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY — $10,500 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$1,120,500Education$973,168Other$1,007,502Youth Development$219,300Arts & Culture$128,772Philanthropy$36,175Recreation & Sports$20,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $127,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County — $104,300 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING FRIENDLY FARM INC — $80,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC — $79,632 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation — $63,158 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL — $20,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZ GIRLS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC — $19,175 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOOD RIVER WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN WITH NEUROIMMUNE DISORDERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMcCallum Theatre Foundation Inc — $13,740 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY — $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCURRIKI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKBY Congregations Together Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE — $9,962 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOLEBURY SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE SNOWS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCURIODYSSEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TATNALL SCHOOL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAWN FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Mona & Edward Zan…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…The Bessemer Giving F…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Jewish Community Fede…Greene Van Arsdale Fo…Bny Mellon Charitable…National Philanthropi…
The Mona & Edward Zander Family FoundationID30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mona & Edward Zander Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Greene Van Arsdale Foundation co KKR Accounting Services LLC · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Zander Family Foundation Inc 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 · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Zander Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Zander 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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