About Zidell Family Foundation
The Zidell Family Foundation appears to concentrate its philanthropy on local cultural institutions in Portland, with a particular willingness to fund major arts capital projects and high-profile public programming. Its single reported grant is a sizable pledge to the Portland Art Museum supporting a piano performance series (Piano: Push: Play) and the museum's capital campaign, indicating interest in sustaining museum infrastructure and music/performing-arts initiatives within the city.
Focus Areas
Museum capital campaigns in PortlandMusic and piano-focused public performance programmingSupport for major cultural institutions in the Portland metro area
Who They Fund
youth of color and BIPOC youthimmigrants and immigrants of colorhomebound seniors and older adultssmall business owners impacted by COVIDHolocaust survivorsartists and cultural organizations (performing/literary communities)
About Zidell Family Foundation
A $51,500 pledge to Portland Art Museum for Piano: Push: Play and the museum’s capital campaign sets the tone for Zidell Family Foundation grantmaking: arts institutions, public programming, and operating support for organizations rooted in Portland. The foundation’s recent gifts show steady backing for cultural organizations such as Literary Arts, Profile Theatre, Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Oregon Ballet Theatre, and Oregon Music Hall of Fame, alongside support for community-serving groups. That mix suggests a funder that combines cultural patronage with practical operating dollars rather than concentrating only on one-off event funding. The grant list also shows interest in institutions that connect arts to broader community life. It has funded museum programming, a youth-of-color play, a book festival, and a music education effort, while also supporting organizations working in reentry, immigrant storytelling, small business recovery, and services for older adults. Several awards are repeated across years, including support for the same organizations in multiple grant cycles, which points to an ongoing relationship rather than isolated gifts. Most awards fall in the five-figure range, with a few larger commitments at the top end of the list.
What Zidell Family Foundation Funds
Arts and culture are a clear through line. Zidell Family Foundation gave $30,000 to Portland Art Museum for Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio, $25,000 to Literary Arts for the Portland Book Festival, and $15,000 to Oregon Ballet Theatre for the 2022/23 season and programs. The foundation also backed Patricia Reser Center for the Arts with $20,000 in operational support in 2024 and 2025. Education and youth programming appear in several forms. It awarded $30,000 to Tivnu Building Justice for Tivnu Gap Year and $15,000 to Profile Theatre for Portland Youth of Color Play. Community-facing support also includes $20,000 to The Immigrant Story for a multimedia project advocating immigrants of color and $20,000 to Meso for new and existing small business impacted by COVID. In health and human services, End of Life Choices Oregon received operating support in consecutive years.
How Zidell Family Foundation Gives
Typical grant size clusters around $10,000, with a p25 of $7,500 and a p75 of $22,500. The recent grants list shows repeated support to several organizations across multiple years, including Portland Art Museum, Tivnu Building Justice, Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, B'nai Brith Camp, Ronald Mcdonald House Charities, Literary Arts, End of Life Choices Oregon, and Black United Fund. That pattern suggests recurring relationships rather than strictly one-time awards. The foundation gives through a family foundation structure tied to the Zidell family, and the site references a letter-of-inquiry process that is currently on pause.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$240K
Total Assets
$6.4M
Total Revenue
$860K
Total Expenses
$427K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $23K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$23K
Geographic Reach
Local3 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
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