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Zide Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$2.3MArts & Culture$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.2MEducation$1.0MPhilanthropy$800kCommunity Improvement$575kYouth Development$475kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC$250,000
FOOD CORPS INC$250,000
MERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC$200,000
FRIENDS OF ELNET$150,000
MULTIPLYING GOOD$100,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$100,000
SAFE WATER NETWORK$100,000
KIDS IN CRISIS$100,000
GREENWICH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION$100,000
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION$100,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$100,000
THE NETWORK GROUP$75,000
SERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK$50,000
GOODNESS WEB FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$25,000
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 (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%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

NY
MA
OR
CT
MO
VA
DE
DC
AL

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10.0M · 20 repeat orgs$590k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
4

Total granted

$10.0M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+6%

Still filing today

95%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +17%
  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +122%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $900k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +6%
  • JA
    JEFFERSON AWARDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • TB
    THE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -96%

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.

1
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
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
4
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
9
Healthix Inc

The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…

Public Benefit
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multiplying Good Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,541

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

24 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. 24 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,050,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL …MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $650,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL C…SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK — $250,000 · HealthSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,550,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDA…+1 more — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $625,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $325,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INCNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZO…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · OtherTHE NETWORK GROUP — $150,000 · OtherNEW PROFIT INC — $575,000 · OtherNEW PROFIT INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $475,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICHSAFE WATER NETWORK — $475,000 · OtherSAFE WATER NETWORKHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $350,000 · OtherHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INCVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $225,000 · OtherVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INCFRIENDS OF ELNET — $150,000 · Other+2 more — $60,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $900,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUS…Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $650,000 · EducationChildren …NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $175,000 · EducationNEW VISIO…New York University — $50,000 · EducationNew York …MULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $450,000 · PhilanthropyMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GOODNESS WEB FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyFOODCORPS INC — $700,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$1,950,000Arts & Culture$1,580,000Other$3,810,000Civil Rights$900,000Education$875,000Philanthropy$750,000Food & Nutrition$700,000

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 budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,550,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,050,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $900,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFOODCORPS INC — $700,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $650,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $650,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $625,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $575,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $475,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSAFE WATER NETWORK — $475,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $450,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $350,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $325,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK — $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERIT SPREAD FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $175,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET — $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GOODNESS WEB FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNew York University — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC — $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 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.

Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Zide Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report 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.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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