How much did ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

Human Services$101kHousing & Shelter$85kInternational$73kCrime & Legal$70kCommunity Improvement$15kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$10kEducation$7kEnvironment$5kOther$245k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

living

2020

emergingfood

2021

—

2022

housinghonorarium

2023

honorariumjustice

2024

arts

2025

againstarts

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $28k
$10k–50k2 grants · $82k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION$41,000
DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS$41,000
ROCA INC$3,000
WEST COAST CARE$2,000
YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND$2,000
PHOTOVILLE$2,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$2,000
LOS ANGELES FOOD BANK$2,000
SPOTLIGHT PA$2,000
THE DOE FUND$2,000
IT TAKES A VILLAGE$2,000
REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS$2,000
PRISON ARTS COLLECTIVE$2,000
KITCHEN ANGELS$2,000
ROOT & REBOUND$1,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$179k · 18 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$179k

$337k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+124%

Still filing today

61%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalCrime & LegalEducationHealthOther

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

AF
AVENUES FOR JUSTICE
3× · 2021–2023 · $26k · revenue +158%
YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND
2× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +92%
YS
YOUTH SHELTERS AND FAMILY SERVICES
3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +78%

Funded once

HI
HIAS INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +191%
VC
VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +141%
MC
MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -9%

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.

Opening Doors for Women in Need

Providing temporary transitional reentry resources to women that were recently released from prison jail or substance abuse programs. Mission is to reduce the rate of recidivism homelessness and unemployment which are bearers contributing…

Human Services

Fresh Start Inc

Fresh start is a transitional shelter that empowers women experiencing homelessness to change their lives by recognizing and using their strenghts to overcome barriers to self-sufficiency.

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Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to ending and preventing domestic violence.

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Open Arms Housing Inc

Open Arms Housings (OAH) mission is to provide permanent homes and ongoing support to women experiencing homelessness. Special care is taken to provide comprehensive mental health support to OAH clients.

Human Services

All Among Us Inc

The mission of All Among Us is to offer secure transformative housing and supportive wraparound services to women who are struggling to achieve and maintain stable housing independence.

—

Women's Aid Service Inc

To provide safety and empowerment to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and to work to eliminate sexual victimization and domestic violence through shelter, treatment, education and social change.

Crime & Legal

New Reach Inc

New reach's mission is to inspire independence for those affected by homelessness and poverty through a continuum of housing and support using the most innovative and progressive methods.

Housing & Shelter

Miriam's House Inc

To end homelessness by rebuilding lives and empowering our community's most vulnerable.

Housing & Shelter

Welcome Home Housing Inc

Welcome Home Housing is a non-profit organization in Sacramento California that provides affordable housing and services to individuals with mental illness.

Human Services

Crossroads for Women

The mission of crossroads for women is to provide comprehensive, integrated services to empower women emerging from incarceration to achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives in the community, for themselves and their children.

Crime & Legal

New Entra Casa Corporation

New Entra Casa provides a residential treatment facility for women. They aim to interrup the cycle of additction, recidivism, poor choices, and abuse by offering drug and alcohol treatment services while in residence.

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Housing Plus Solutions Inc

To provide community-based housing and comprehensive services to women, including women with children, to support them in overcoming poverty, homelessness, addiction, trauma, and the effects of incarceration, in order to build lives of…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Works and the most unlike its peers is Community Action Pioneer Valley. 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.

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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,520

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.

06the grantee network

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/44

Grantees still filing

38/44

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$266,500Human Services$100,500Housing & Shelter$85,000International$73,000Crime & Legal$69,500Community Improvement$15,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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.

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.

Seeding JusticeOR13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seeding Justice · The Rose Hills Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Meyer Memorial Trust · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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 organisation ZELL 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 18.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461378116 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GIVE A BEAT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Zell Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Zell Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Zell Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Zell Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph