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Frank and Paula Zavrl Charitable Foundat at a glance

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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.

$75k
Granted FY2021
17
Grants FY2021
10
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$220kHousing & Shelter$168kHealth$61kHuman Services$59kPhilanthropy$52kRecreation & Sports$4kYouth Development$4kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2021 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k15 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$672
Median grant
10
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $6k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $750 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $2k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $2k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $500 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$441k · 28 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
43

Total granted

$441k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+36%

Still filing today

68%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $126k · revenue +14%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $117k · revenue +31%
  • HH
    HEADING HOME INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOSTON COLLEGE FLYNN FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • AB
    A BIGGER VISION
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
5
Emerson Health System Inc

Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…

Health
6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
10
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAZARUS HOUSE: $50,000 · OtherLAZARUS HOUSETHE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $40,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGEMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $31,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALBOSTON COLLEGE FLYNN FUND: $30,000 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE FLYNN FUNDTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $20,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONTA BIGGER VISION: $15,000 · OtherA BIGGER VISION+43 more: $60,223 · Other+43 moreLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $125,793 · Housing & ShelterLAZARUS HOUSE INCHEADING HOME INC: $21,600 · Housing & ShelterHEADING HOME INC+1 more: $1,100 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $117,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT A…+5 more: $6,061 · EducationPINE STREET INN INC: $9,750 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $6,250 · Human Services+2 more: $1,250 · Human ServicesTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $13,070 · PhilanthropyCOPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC: $8,015 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,471 · Philanthropy+1 more: $261 · PhilanthropyTargetCancer Foundation Inc: $10,068 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $500 · Health+7 more: $1,252 · HealthCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $2,788 · International
Other$246,223Housing & Shelter$148,493Education$123,061Human Services$23,750Philanthropy$22,817Health$14,320International$2,788

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $125,793 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $117,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $21,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $13,070 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTargetCancer Foundation Inc: $10,068 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $9,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC: $8,015 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $6,938 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $6,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $2,788 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM WOOFGANG & CO INC: $1,886 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,471 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $911 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST END HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $355 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $270 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDOVER YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $267 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $261 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY YMCACAMP HUCKINS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE SOUP KITCHEN INC: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds TAZZY ANIMAL RESCUE FUND INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncThe US Charitable Gif…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…
Boston Foundation IncMA12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank and Paula Zavrl Charitable Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Paula Zavrl Charitable Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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