How much does Zeitz Foundation give?

Zeitz Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $4,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Zeitz Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Civil Rights (19%), Religion (17%).

Who are Zeitz Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($5k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($4k), The Commonwealth School Inc ($3k).

Does Zeitz Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Zeitz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Zeitz Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is Zeitz Foundation based?

Zeitz Foundation is based in MA.

Zeitz Foundation

Zeitz Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Zeitz 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.

$5k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$10kCivil Rights$7kReligion$7kCrime & Legal$4kInternational$4kEducation$4kHuman Services$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Other$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250

Median grant

States reached

$73k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$500
Greater Boston Interfaith Organizat	$500
American Jewish World Service	$250
COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL	$250
GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES	$250
METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES	$250
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL	$250
LA COLABORATIVA	$250
NATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION	$200
PARTNERS IN HEALTH	$150
BETH EL TEMPLE CENTER	$150

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $650) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$36k · 16 repeat orgs$500 to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$36k

$500

Still filing today

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +12%
SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +10%
TC
THE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +32%

Funded once

UH
UNIDOS HURRICANE RELIEF FUND
one grant, 2017 · $500

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.

Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights

Health Law Advocates Inc

Health law advocates (hla) provides free legal representation to eligible ma consumers facing barriers to health care. hla fights for health care justice by representing consumers and through education and outreach throughout the state.

Human Services

The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International

Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International

Parliamentarians for Global Action

Parliamentarians for global action (pga) is a non-partisan ngo network of legislators from all regions of the world acting in their individual capacity to advocate for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; peace and human security;…

International

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

To provide convenient and affordable access to a comprehensive range of quality reproductive health care and sexual health information through patient services, education, and advocacy.

Health

Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights

Healthquarters Inc

Healthq is committed to providing sexual and reproductive healthcare without judgment or barriers.

Health

Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

—

Massachusetts Public Health Association

Mpha promotes a healthy massachusetts through advocacy, education, community organizing and coalition building. we are leaders in the movement to create health equity by addressing the root causes of health and wellness. we promote…

Health

Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

—

American Immigration Lawyers Association

The american immigration lawyers association (aila) was established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the…

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for All Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

11/12

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$18,900Health$9,300Crime & Legal$4,250Education$3,550International$2,500Human Services$650

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Zeitz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zeitz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

Play a game based on Zeitz’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home