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Zausmer 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION RODEPH SHALOM | $20,000 |
| JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $10,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS (PAFA) | $10,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| KLEINLIFE | $2,500 |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| REVIVE SOUTH JERSEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,500 |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NEW YORK | $1,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of your 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- SMSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA6× · 2019–2025 · $317k · revenue +53%
- RSRODEPH SHALOM CONGREGATION6× · 2020–2025 · $120k
- JTJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA5× · 2021–2025 · $70k
Funded once
- MMUTTVILLEone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -48%
- MRMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
- CCCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +50%
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.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metavivor Research and Support Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends Select School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE) ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE AUDITORY ORAL SCHOOL OF NY ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DMAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Pew Charitable Trusts · The Philadelphia Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Zausmer 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.
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.
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