· Private foundation
Zeman 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAWMSD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| MAKE A WISH ILLINOIS | $20,000 |
| WINGS | $20,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $15,000 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| OLE MISS ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +12%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +43%
- WHWellness House9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- WAWEST ALLIS REC CENTERone grant, 2021 · $70k
- PDPLEASANT DALE PARK DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $10k
- KDKEN DUKE AND FRIENDS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
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.
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.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT DALE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds KEN DUKE AND FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANNY DID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREGMAN CARES INC ↗
- Who funds LYONS TOWNSHIP HOCKEY CLUB ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zeman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zeman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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