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Zisson Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $347k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UJA-JCC GREENWICH | $227,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $60,000 |
| GALAPAGOS ROCKFORD CHARTER SCHOOL NFP INC | $60,000 |
| JCEO OF CLINTON & FRANKLIN COUNTY | $30,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $30,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $30,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $30,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| HYPERSOMNIA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $30,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $30,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $30,000 |
| ABRAHAM INITIATIVES | $15,000 |
| PHOENIX THEATRE ENSEMBLE | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CTCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +73%
- NTNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +41%
DIRECT RELIEF9× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- 44-CTone grant, 2020 · $60k
- IRINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
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…
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hypersomnia Foundation Inc. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 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. 39 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds JOINT COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF CLINTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS ROCKFORD CHARTER SCHOOL NFP INC ↗
- Who funds PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SARANAC LAKE INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds HYPERSOMNIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Zisson Foundation Inc 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
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.
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