· Private foundation
Celeste and Kurt Zuch Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of CELESTE AND KURT ZUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELTON LANDMARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION | $45,526 |
| UVA FUND | $20,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $16,500 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| STAND UP FOR CANCER | $5,500 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $2,500 |
| THE TURNER 12 INC | $2,500 |
| IMG ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| DESTINY BUILDERS | $2,000 |
| NETWORK FOR GOOD | $1,030 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $1,025 |
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 (FY17–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Celeste and Kurt Zuch Family 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- SFSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC4× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +49%
- THTHEOLOGICAL HORIZONS4× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +144%
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2022 · $3k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FUNDone grant, 2017 · $20k
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +162%
- HPHIGHLAND PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 104 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 VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTON LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Turner 12 ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CROSSROADS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds THEOLOGICAL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds DESTINY BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds CCA TEXAS FUND ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Choice ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Celeste and Kurt Zuch Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.