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Zidell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$51,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$6.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Zidell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$240k6%
FY202321$326k29%
FY202226$365k23%
FY202120$329k15%
FY202025$296k44%
FY201924$339k67%
FY201812$282k67%
FY20176$32kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$511kHuman Services$332kHousing & Shelter$316kCivil Rights$200kHealth$182kEducation$140kReligion$125kRecreation & Sports$113kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Zidell Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tivnu Building Justice$150,00054%
Pear$140,00044%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$125,00055%
Portland Art Museum$124,50040%
B'Nai Brith Men's Camp Association$113,18081%
Portland Community College Foundation Inc$70,38140%
Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc$65,00034%
Profile Theatre Project$60,00033%
Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers$60,00021%
Metropolitan Youth Symphony$51,50071%
Portland State University Foundation$50,00010%
Morrison Child and Family Services$50,00010%
Oregon Music Hall of Fame$50,00066%
Jewish Family and Child Service$45,00031%
End of Life Choices - Oregon$45,00045%
Oregon Ballet Theatre$42,50040%
Store to Door$42,50061%
Literary Arts Inc$40,00020%
Brown Hope$35,00021%
Providence St Vincent Medical Foundation$30,00020%
Immigrant Story$30,000214%
Portland Children's Museum$30,00030%
Oregon & Sw Washington Susan G Komen$25,0001n/a
Rose Haven Cic$20,00020%
Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon$20,00010%
Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Oregon and Sw Washington$20,00045%
Outside In$19,00040%
Chehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center$17,50021%
Children's Cancer Association$15,0001n/a
Meals on Wheels People Inc$15,00030%
Charitable Partnership Fund$15,00020%
Medical Teams International$10,00010%
Boost Oregon$10,00014%
Gather Make Shelter$10,00022%
The Brian Grant Foundation$7,50011%
Equitable Giving Circle$5,00010%
Trevor Project Inc$5,00010%
Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon$3,00010%
Kinship House$3,00010%
Sisters of the Road Inc$1,00010%
Charity Global Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($537k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zidell Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTivnu Building Justice: $150,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetPear: $140,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $125,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $124,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetB'Nai Brith Men's Camp Association: $113,180 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPortland Community College Foundation Inc: $70,381 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBeaverton Arts Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetProfile Theatre Project: $60,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHelping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMetropolitan Youth Symphony: $51,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetPortland State University Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMorrison Child and Family Services: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOregon Music Hall of Fame: $50,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetJewish Family and Child Service: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEnd of Life Choices - Oregon: $45,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetOregon Ballet Theatre: $42,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetStore to Door: $42,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLiterary Arts Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrown Hope: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetProvidence St Vincent Medical Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetImmigrant Story: $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPortland Children's Museum: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRose Haven Cic: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMicro Enterprise Services of Oregon: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOvarian Cancer Alliance of Oregon and Sw Washington: $20,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetOutside In: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center: $17,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels People Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharitable Partnership Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMedical Teams International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoost Oregon: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGather Make Shelter: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Brian Grant Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEquitable Giving Circle: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners for a Hunger Free Oregon: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKinship House: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSisters of the Road Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR55.9× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund

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.

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How do I get to Zidell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zidell Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Zidell Family Foundation

How much does Zidell Family Foundation give?
Zidell Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $239,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Zidell Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Human Services (15%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
Who are Zidell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tivnu Building Justice ($150k), Pear ($140k), Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life ($125k).
Does Zidell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zidell Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Zidell Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, The Collins Foundation.
Where is Zidell Family Foundation based?
Zidell Family Foundation is based in OR.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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