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Zimmerman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$2.0MYouth Development$90kReligion$41kHuman Services$40kHealth$39kFood & Nutrition$24kArts & Culture$19kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $202,357, the rows itemized in this filing. The $285,674 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $83,317 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $107k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas Wesleyan University$40,000
Rite of Passage Journeys$30,000
Sunrise Presbyterian Church$25,000
Wichita State University$12,000
Kansas 4H Foundation$8,000
Phillips Fundamental Learning Center$6,000
The Trevor Project$5,000
Planned Parenthood$5,000
Salina Regional Health Center Foundation$5,000
Ashby House$5,000
Salina Emergency Aid Food Bank$5,000
Salina Grace Foundation$3,140
Faith Baptist Bible College$3,000
Kansas State University Foundation$3,000
Salina Education Foundation$3,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 38 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
24

Total granted

$2.3M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+10%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +26%
  • KW
    KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $134k · revenue +18%
  • RO
    RITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SP
    Sunrise Presbyterian M Church
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • SA
    SALINA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEINC
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +6%
  • SA
    Salina Arts & Humanities
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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.

03Its 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
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
2
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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3
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
4
Salina Health Education Foundation

To serve our community at the crossroads of compassionate healthcare and professional education.

Education
5
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
6
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy
7
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
8
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
9
Kansas Land Trust Inc

To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.

Environment
10
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
11
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
12
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Legal Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cascadia Art Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 71 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,825,574 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $134,000 · EducationKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY+5 more: $22,355 · EducationSunrise Presbyterian Church: $29,000 · OtherSunrise P…Wichita State University: $27,000 · OtherWichita S…SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $17,114 · OtherSALINA EM…Planned Parenthood: $12,000 · OtherPlanned P…Salina Regional Health Center Foundation: $11,866 · OtherSalina Re…SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,264 · OtherSunrise Presbyterian M Church: $6,850 · Other+42 more: $86,627 · Other+42 moreRITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentASHBY HOUSE LTD: $26,057 · Housing & ShelterSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $6,799 · Housing & ShelterPATH HOME: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $4,197 · Housing & ShelterGreater Salina Community Foundation: $9,355 · PhilanthropyMONA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND: $2,500 · PhilanthropyYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $6,317 · Human ServicesEverstrong Prevention: $2,000 · Human ServicesMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,355 · Human ServicesCASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $1,000 · Human ServicesMARK ARTS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,981,929Other$199,721Youth Development$85,000Housing & Shelter$42,053Philanthropy$14,855Human Services$10,672Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,825,574 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $134,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRITE OF PASSAGE JOURNEYS: $75,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetASHBY HOUSE LTD: $26,057 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetSALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $17,114 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Salina Community Foundation: $9,355 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,264 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMARK ARTS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $6,799 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $6,317 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATH HOME: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $4,197 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Land Institute: $4,171 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALINA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEINC: $4,114 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $4,085 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONDS FOOD BANK: $3,521 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON LANDWATCH: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIQRA Fund: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDMONDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE CHLOE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc: $1,585 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,355 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $1,355 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOW MAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,355 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $1,321 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLIMATE AND ENERGY PROJECT INC: $1,321 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRINITY ACADEMY INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADIA ART MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $700 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Greater Salina Commun…Smoot Charitable Foun…Earl Bane FoundationVerla Nesbitt Joscely…Mike Berkley Family F…Mildred and Rolland M…McCune & Middlekauff …Morrison Foundation T…Salina Regional Healt…Milton I and Frances …Walker Family Foundat…Horejsi Charitable Fo…
Greater Salina Community FoundationKS37.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Walker Family Foundation · Horejsi Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Zimmerman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zimmerman 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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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