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Zoll 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$94k
Largest
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 FY20182025.

Health$5.8MEducation$1.7MScience & Tech$76kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kInternational$5k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $413k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $882k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE$93,689
GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA$89,132
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$85,276
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$84,930
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$84,231
HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$82,011
DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC$77,896
ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE$64,872
THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA AUSTRIA$60,000
MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE$56,315
ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE$54,123
MAYO CLINIC$50,000
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$49,927
MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE$49,911
FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH$49,816
02The need
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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 US giving — 69% of grant dollars ($5.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 31% that went abroad ($2.3M) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $82k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $58k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%THE LEWIS KATZ SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $68k → 10%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE: $53k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO: $80k → 13%MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $76k → 14%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $86k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL: $100k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MI: $74k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $50k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $50k → 13%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $67k → 17%ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $99k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $77k → 14%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC: $58k → 10%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $50k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $61k → 22%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 10%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 6%ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $65k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $75k → 14%TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $76k → 10%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $50k → 9%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 10%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 6%ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $54k → 8%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $50k → 22%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $85k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 10%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 6%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $70k → 16%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 6%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $61k → 16%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 6%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $51k → 16%THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 6%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $85k → 16%FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $50k → 6%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $50k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $84k → 16%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

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Beyond the US — 31% of all-years giving ($2.3M)

19 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$324k · 7 grants
Denmark$306k · 10 grants
Australia$272k · 6 grants
Japan$205k · 4 grants
Austria$167k · 5 grants
Germany$162k · 2 grants
France$120k · 4 grants
Belgium$109k · 3 grants
China$100k · 2 grants
Norway$94k · 2 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Zoll Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Zoll Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 33% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 24 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
52

Total granted

$4.4M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+52%

Still filing today

33%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $654k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2020–2024 · $391k · revenue +26%
  • RF
    Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
    4× · 2019–2025 · $282k · revenue +29%
  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2018–2023 · $152k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • CU
    CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA
    one grant, 2019 · $88k
  • WM
    WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $86k

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.

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Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
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Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
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University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University and the most unlike its peers is Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%61%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%64%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,538

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.

05the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 87 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
18/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE — $674,126 · OtherTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $364,483 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDAARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL — $294,890 · OtherRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science — $281,515 · OtherVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — $279,965 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $217,315 · OtherMURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $199,915 · Other+63 more — $3,270,268 · Other+63 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $390,771 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PIT…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $216,921 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…University of Chicago — $151,772 · EducationUniversity of Chi…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $116,869 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESE…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $99,472 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNI…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $97,740 · EducationThe Research Foun…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $40,218 · EducationMAYO CLINIC — $298,564 · HealthMAYO CLINICBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $169,161 · HealthBETH ISRAEL …Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic — $136,246 · HealthDartmouth-Hi…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $55,410 · HealthTHE CHILDREN…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $49,816 · HealthTHE FEINSTEI…MaineHealth — $47,975 · HealthMaineHealthAvera Health — $41,207 · Health+1 more — $5,777 · Health
Other$5,582,477Education$1,163,763Health$854,156

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $390,771 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $298,564 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science — $281,515 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $216,921 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $151,772 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic — $136,246 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $116,869 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $99,472 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $97,740 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $76,266 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $55,410 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth — $47,975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvera Health — $41,207 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $40,218 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EMS PHYSICIANS — $5,777 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds University of Chicago
  • Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
  • Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Zoll 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc25% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Zoll Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Zoll Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 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.

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