· Private foundation
Frank and Paula Zavrl Charitable Foundat
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k15 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE | $4,750 |
| RED SOX FOUNDATION | $2,570 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $1,250 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $911 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $768 |
| CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL | $672 |
| COPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER | $515 |
| UVM FOUNDATION | $500 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $500 |
| NOTRE DAME | $250 |
| WOOFGANG | $100 |
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 (FY17–21, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
LAZARUS HOUSE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $126k · revenue +14%- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2021 · $117k · revenue +31%
- HHHEADING HOME INC3× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +282%
Funded once
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE FLYNN FUNDone grant, 2017 · $30k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONTone grant, 2020 · $20k
- ABA BIGGER VISIONone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 80 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 LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TargetCancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds COPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM WOOFGANG & CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds TAZZY ANIMAL RESCUE FUND INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Frank and Paula Zavrl Charitable Foundat 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- 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.