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Zuckerman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$588k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$165k
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 FY20172024.

Health$2.9MFood & Nutrition$1.2MCivil Rights$1.2MArts & Culture$190kEducation$180kRecreation & Sports$165kHuman Services$133kPhilanthropy$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
U OF A FOUNDATION COMM SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAM$165,000
UAFUA SHOOL GARDEN WORKSHOP$150,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD AZ$60,000
U OF A FOUNDATION$25,000
U OF A FOUNDATION$25,000
U OF A FOUNDATION$25,000
U OF A FOUNDATION$25,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SO AZ$20,000
CLINICA AMISTAD$15,000
TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES$15,000
EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$15,000
PRIMAVERA FOUNDATION INC$10,000
U OF A FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITY HOME REPAIR PROJECTS OF AZ INC$10,000
EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $8k → 15%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.

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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 13 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$5.0M
$657k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+13%

Still filing today

23%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $563k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • UO
    U OF A FOUNDATION - COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M
  • UO
    U OF A FOUNDATION - COMMUNITY SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAM
    7× · 2017–2023 · $971k
  • CF
    Community Food Bank Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $815k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • TF
    TMC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • J
    JTED
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • UO
    U OF A FOUNDATION - AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

1
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
3
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

4
Tempe Community Action Agency Inc

TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…

Community Improvement
5
Society of St Vincent de Paul Tucson

The mission of SSVDP is to promote the spiritual growth of its members through prayer, friendship, and service to others.

Religion
6
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
7
United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc

Our vision is a community where every child receives a high-quality education from birth to career, every adult has the opportunity to thrive financailly and in the workplace, and every older person can retire and age with dignity and…

Philanthropy
8
Social Venture Partners Tucson

Svp tucson is an ever expanding community of engaged philanthropists dedicated to building the capacity, strength and impact of nonprofits in addressing social problems. we accomplish this through: thoughtful and strategic investments and…

Philanthropy
9
Corazon Az

CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…

Civil Rights
10
Chicanos Por La Causa Inc Cplc

We drive economic and political empowerment.

Human Services
11
Impact of Southern Arizona

Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.

Community Improvement
12
Tucson Medical Center

Tucson medical center's mission is to deliver caring, personalized, quality healthcare to patients and their families in an environment that is supportive, education-focused and compassionate.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tucson Centers for Women & Children Inc Dba Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse and the most unlike its peers is Pima Council on Aging Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 36 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

U OF A FOUNDATION - COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH — $1,707,550 · OtherU OF A FOUNDATION - COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTHU OF A FOUNDATION - COMMUNITY SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAM — $971,284 · OtherU OF A FOUNDATION - COMMUNITY SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAMU OF A FOUNDATION - UA HEALTH SCIENCES — $788,800 · OtherU OF A FOUNDATION - UA HEALTH SCIENCESTMC FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Other+21 more — $1,215,000 · Other+21 moreCommunity Food Bank Inc — $815,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food…TUCSON COMMUNITY TENNIS PROGRAM — $165,000 · Recreation & SportsEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPima Council on Aging Foundation — $100,000 · Human ServicesAngel Charity for Children Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE — $7,500 · Human ServicesNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $120,000 · EnvironmentNETWORK FOR GOOD — $100,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $22,000 · HealthAMISTAD Y SALUD — $15,000 · HealthTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $15,000 · Health
Other$4,932,634Food & Nutrition$815,000Recreation & Sports$215,000Human Services$132,500Environment$120,000Public Safety & Disaster$100,000Health$52,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc — $815,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED — $120,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING — $50,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAngel Charity for Children Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Southern Arizona — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMISTAD Y SALUD — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSister Jose Women's Center — $5,000 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 Community Food Bank Inc
  • Who funds TUCSON COMMUNITY TENNIS PROGRAM
  • Who funds NATIVE SEEDSSOUTHWESTERN ENDANGERED
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD
  • Who funds TUCSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC DBA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM TUCSON
  • Who funds EL GRUPO YOUTH CYCLING
  • Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC
  • Who funds Humane Society of Southern Arizona
  • Who funds AMISTAD Y SALUD
  • Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc
  • Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE
  • Who funds Sister Jose Women's 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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Zuckerman Community Outreach Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Intuit Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Russell D Garrett Foundation · Ashton Family Foundation · Tucson Medical Center

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 Zuckerman 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Zuckerman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Zuckerman 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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