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  The Zaitlin-Nienberg Family Fund is the philanthropic giving vehicle for left-of-center activists Jody “Jaz” Zaitlin and Mark Nienberg of Kensington, California. It does not file financial reports with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and may be a donor-advised fund within a larger charitable organization.
 
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  The Zakat Foundation of America, also known simply as the Zakat Foundation, is a global Islamic charitable organization based in Bridgeview, Illinois, that offers aid to impoverished communities around the world. 28
 
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  The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund is a grantmaking organization based in Baltimore. Maryland and is a supporting foundation of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. It provides grants towards left-of-center issues including low-income housing, behavioral health, and environmentalism.
 
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  Zaytuna College is an educational institution that claims to be the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. 78 It is based in Berkeley, California
 
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  The Zegar Family Foundation is a large left-of-center invitation-only grantmaking foundation located in New York City founded by Charles and Merryl Zegar. 120 The foundation provides grants
 
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  The Zellerbach Family Foundation is a left-of-center non-profit grantmaking foundation that focuses on providing grants to left-of-center organizations that focus on the arts, left-wing approaches to immigration, and “promoting culture.” 132 It is
 
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  The Zephyr Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit academic center that supports Stanford University students, scholars, and young professionals. Zephyr focuses its studies on understanding the human person, the common good, and the nature of the good life, especially as they are affected by changing social, cultural, and technological trends.
 
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  Zero for Zeros is an LGBT-issues-focused activist campaign that has the goal of pressuring companies that have LGBT-friendly corporate policies to stop contributing to the campaigns of candidates that do not align with the ideological positions of the Human Rights Campaign, the prominent LGBT-interest organization that scores members of
 
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  Zero to Three (stylized ZERO TO THREE) is a  501(c)(3) that advocates for policy change in early childhood development.
 
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  ZeroDivide, founded in the late 1990s, began as a grant-making organization focused on bringing technology to low-income populations and later transitioned into a nonprofit consulting firm advising other nonprofits. The organization went from receiving millions of dollars in grants at its height, to closing its doors in 2016 amid allegations
 
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  Zg Foundation is a left-of-center private foundation based in East Hanover, New Jersey. Its giving focuses on combatting climate change and other environmental challenges. Grantees are large organizations conducting dozens of projects in both the United States and abroad ostensibly to halt the progression of warming and to assist populations
 
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  The Zion Deliverance Center is a local religious organization that operates within Baltimore, Maryland. 190
 
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  The Zolla Family Foundation is the family foundation of late Southern California construction company owner and real estate developer Edward M. Zolla III and his wife, Susan Zolla. For most of its existence, the foundation’s giving was largely focused on supporting low-income education and cultural charities in the Los Angeles
 
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  The Zoma Foundation is the private grantmaking foundation of Ben Walton and his wife Lucy Ana Walton. Ben Walton is a grandson of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart. The Zoma Foundation has a focus on programs such as mental health and early childhood development. The foundation also focuses
 
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  The Zoom Foundation is a left-of-center family foundation based in Greenwich, Connecticut and established in 2001 by hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel, Jr. and his wife Susan Zadek Mandel. The foundation controls $1.2 billion in assets and contributes most of its disbursements to donor-advised funds directing $58.4 million