· Private foundation
George&Marion Buerkel Oscar&Ella Zoellner Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS EO COMMUNITY GRANTS | $41,900 |
| EASTEN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $28,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| UTAH STATE | $12,000 |
| BLUE MT COMM COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIV | $5,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITL FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| LEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| BAKER CO FAIR HW | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +126% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EOEastern Oregon Museum4× · 2018–2022 · $29k · revenue +161%
- EOEASTERN OREGON REGIONAL THEATER INC4× · 2018–2022 · $21k · revenue +472%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN4× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- EOEASTERN OR UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $18k
- NPNORTH POWDER CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $13k
- NPNORTH POWDER RURAL FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
Support the Baker County Fair
Promotion of The Bureau of Land Management's Oregon Trail Interpretive Center at Flagstaff hill and other historic and cultural aspects of Baker County, OR.
Baker City Downtown (BCD) is an organization that strives to preserve and enhance the vitality and character of our community through the beautification, promotion and development of downtown Baker City.
The Mount Baker Theatre Organization enriches our region's culture through dynamic performances and arts education, inspiring engagement in the community, and stewardship of a national historic treasure.
Preserving the past via a local museum.
Preserve, promote and celebrate our local history
The Umatilla County Historical Society collects, preserves, interprets and presents objects and stories unique to the region.
The fox theater foundation is dedicated to restoring and operating the fox theater located in bakersfield, california.
To Provide An Enriching and Diverse Theatre Experiance
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Leo Adler Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George&Marion Buerkel Oscar&Ella Zoellner Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George&Marion Buerkel Oscar&Ella Zoellner Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
- Corban University: 3% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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