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Zidell Family Foundation at a glance

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Zidell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$51,500
LITERARY ARTS$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$25,000
PATRICIA RESER CENTER FOR THE ARTS$20,000
B'NAI BRITH CAMP$18,000
END OF LIFE CHOICES OREGON$15,000
PROFILE THEATRE$15,000
STORE TO DOOR$10,000
ROSE HAVEN$10,000
OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME$10,000
LIFT URBAN PORTLAND PANTRY$10,000
BELOVED BUILDERS$9,650
METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY$8,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GATHERMAKESHELTER$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARITYWATER: $1k → 17%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $40k → 12%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $30k → 12%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $30k → 12%GATHERMAKESHELTER: $5k → 12%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $30k → 12%GATHERMAKESHELTER: $5k → 12%TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $20k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICE: $25k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICE: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILD SERVICE: $10k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $10k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $10k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $8k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $8k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $5k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 37 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
19

Total granted

$2.0M
$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+2%

Still filing today

70%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TB
    TIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE
    5× · 2018–2023 · $150k · revenue +118%
  • P
    PEAR
    4× · 2018–2022 · $140k · revenue +1%
  • HT
    HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • PS
    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -20%
  • MC
    MORRISON CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • OS
    OREGON & SW WASHINGTON SUSAN G KOMEN
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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.

1
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
2
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
3
Portland Farmers Market

Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…

Community Improvement
4
Portland Community Media

Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.

Arts & Culture
5
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
6
Portland Fruit Tree Project

To increase equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.

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7
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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8
Oregon Music Festival

Oregon Music Festival's mission is the performance, production, and promotion of classical music through orchestral, choral/orchestra, and chamber music.

Arts & Culture
9
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
10
LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services
11
Portland Seamens Friend Society
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12
Portland Street Medicine

We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literary Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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

40 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. 40 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $140,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $125,000 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEBLACK UNITED FUND: $90,000 · OtherBLACK UNITED FUNDHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $75,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherBYBEE LAKES HOPE CENTER: $50,000 · OtherLIFT URBAN PORTLAND PANTRY: $42,500 · OtherMESO: $40,000 · OtherLITERARY ARTS INC: $40,000 · OtherEND OF LIFE CHOICES - OREGON: $45,000 · OtherBROWN HOPE: $35,000 · Other+21 more: $255,150 · Other+21 morePORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $124,500 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUMBEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureBEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDAT…Profile Theatre Project: $60,000 · Arts & CultureProfile Theatre Projec…Metropolitan Youth Symphony: $51,500 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Youth Sym…OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME: $50,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON MUSIC HALL OF F…OREGON BALLET THEATRE: $42,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON BALLET THEATREIMMIGRANT STORY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureIMMIGRANT STORYChildren's Cancer Association: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTIVNU BUILDING JUSTICE: $150,000 · Human ServicesTIVNU BUILDI…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE: $45,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…STORE TO DOOR: $42,500 · Human ServicesSTORE TO DOO…Gather Make Shelter: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS: $60,000 · HealthMORRISON CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthOVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON: $20,000 · HealthTHE BRIAN GRANT FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthPEAR: $140,000 · Housing & ShelterROSE HAVEN CIC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION: $113,180 · Youth DevelopmentPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $70,381 · PhilanthropyCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND: $15,000 · PhilanthropyEQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLE: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$987,650Arts & Culture$438,500Human Services$248,500Health$170,500Housing & Shelter$160,000Youth Development$113,180Philanthropy$90,381

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

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
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.

The Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Collins FoundationOregon Jewish Communi…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Harold & Arlene S…The Reser Family Foun…Juan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…Hillman Family Founda…M J Murdock Charitabl…Maybelle Clark Macdon…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Zidell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zidell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Morrison Child and Family Services: 91% of income from government
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon: 31% of income from government
  • Boost Oregon: 22% of income from government
  • Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers: 18% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Gather Make Shelter: 7% of income from government
  • B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association: 7% of income from government
  • Portland Community College Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon: 5% of income from government
  • Profile Theatre Project: 2% of income from government
  • Pear: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony: 1% of income from government
  • Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
5report 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.
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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.

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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