· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- 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 INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HYPERSOMNIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zisson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zisson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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