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Zimmel Family Foundation

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.

$999k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$400k
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$3.5MArts & Culture$910kHealth$776kPhilanthropy$225kHuman Services$119kInternational$90kHousing & Shelter$51kReligion$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $292k
  • $250k+2 grants · $650k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY-REGENTS STEM SCHOLARS PROGRAM$400,000
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE COUNTY$250,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES$150,000
AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA$81,943
EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$60,000
THE FAMILY LEARNING CENTER$30,000
YAMPA RIVER BOTANIC PARK$5,110
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC$5,000
EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$5,000
PROTECT OUR WINTERS$3,172
CLEARWATER CAMP FOUNDATION$1,070
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION$1,062
VAIL SYMPOSIUM$1,000
THE COLORADO TRAIL FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $10k → 9%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY: $5k → 9%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

IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 28 repeat orgs$702k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
21

Total granted

$4.9M
$573k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+33%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +47%
  • NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +29%
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -44%
  • CB
    CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $125k
  • SC
    STANWICH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $50k

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
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
2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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3
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
8
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
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
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vail Symposium. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersGovernment Accountability R…Community Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Veteran Support ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Christian Youth CampsProfessional Ballet Compani…Elementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersPublic Library SupportVolunteer Fire DepartmentsSubstance Abuse TreatmentEducation Equity LeadershipChild and Family ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%55%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,517

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

47 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. 47 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
38/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY-REGENTS STEM SCHOLARS PROGRAM — $1,200,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY-REGENTS STEM SCHOLARS PROGR…NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC — $460,000 · OtherNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INCDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONCHRISTIAN BROTHERS ACADEMY — $125,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $100,000 · OtherEAGLE HILL SCHOOL — $95,000 · Other+25 more — $306,242 · Other+25 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,210,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY — $300,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTYNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $256,000 · EducationNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION I…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $100,000 · Education+6 more — $117,000 · Education+6 moreNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC R…CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $240,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLI…Center for the Arts Evergreen Inc — $135,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for the Ar…+3 more — $19,250 · Arts & CultureEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $225,000 · PhilanthropyAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC — $81,943 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $8,000 · InternationalRESILIENCE 1220 INC — $25,000 · HealthPATHWAYS INC — $21,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $16,000 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $15,000 · HealthLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC — $5,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $41,005 · EnvironmentEAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $5,000 · EnvironmentEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST — $5,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $3,172 · Environment
Other$2,536,242Education$1,983,000Arts & Culture$894,250Philanthropy$225,000International$89,943Health$82,000Environment$54,177

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 budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC — $460,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY — $300,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $256,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $240,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetCenter for the Arts Evergreen Inc — $135,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC — $60,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $41,005 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBETH-EL CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBootstraps Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetRESILIENCE 1220 INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClearwater Camp Foundation Inc — $6,070 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMIANUS RIVER GORGE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHEATERWORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPILOBOLUS INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION — $1,062 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADWORKSINC — $1,000 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Ayco Charitable F…S & L Marx FoundationLone Pine Foundation …The Tudor Foundation …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fairfield County's Co…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · S & L Marx Foundation · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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 Zimmel 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 · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Pathways Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Beth-El Center Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report 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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines