· Private foundation
Zivin Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC | $15,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $12,500 |
| PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL | $5,000 |
| THE ARK | $5,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ERIE FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| RAINBOW RAILROAD USA | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL | $4,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $4,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +33%
- RURush University Medical Center3× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +14%
- AFALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- JSJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +25%
- WBWARREN BILLY CHERRY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +86%
- CWCANCER WELLNESS CENTERone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +17%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Family Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cea Inc fka Cefm Network 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 38 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.
28 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. 28 of the 33 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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CEA INC fka CEFM Network Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART CENTER OF HIGHLAND PARK ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JOB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WARREN BILLY CHERRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Kellcie Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · First Bank Chicago Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Zivin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% 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.