How much did HERBERT M ZAHL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of HERBERT M ZAHL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

food bank

2021

food bank

2022

food bank

2023

ilwaco

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$912k

Total assets

Largest grants

REBUILDING TOGETHER$7,400
SOUTH PACIFIC COUNTY$7,400
ILWACO HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHINOOK SCHOOL$4,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL$4,000
OCEAN PARK FOOD BANK$4,000
HIS SUPPER TABLE$4,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$232k · 12 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$232k

$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+54%

Still filing today

42%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

HS
HIS SUPPER TABLE
8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +45%
OP
OCEAN PARK FOOD BANK
5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +59%
TC
THE COMMUNITY TABLE
2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +93%

Funded once

FB
FOOD BACKPACKS FOR KIDS
one grant, 2019 · $8k
PP
PENINSULA POVERTY RESPONSEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +147%
HS
HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +54%

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

04Your field

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.

Lake Chelan Food Bank

The mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.

Food & Nutrition

Kettle Falls Community Chest

Food is collected through donations and purchases, then distributed on an as needed basis.

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Camas Prairie Food Bank Inc

Camas Prairie Food Bank Inc collects food and cash donations to purchase food which it then distributes to directly to the local population. The distribution center is open 2 days per week from 10AM to 2PM for those in need to stop by and…

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of Nevada County

To distribute food to the needy of Nevada County.

Food & Nutrition

Community Sharing Christian Center Inc

Food Pantry.

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Community Food Basket

The Organization provides food and material assistance at no cost to persons or families who are unable to provide for their own needs.

Food & Nutrition

Anchor Point Food Pantry

Food pantry

Food & Nutrition

Family Promise of Cowlitz County

To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.

Human Services

Snohomish Community Food Bank

To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need

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Clay Street Table

Clay Street Table is operated exclusively for charitable purposes including serving meals and operating food pantries for vulnerable members of the community.

Food & Nutrition

Eat Happy Now

Eat Happy's mission revolves around rescuing perfectly healthy food that would otherwise be discarded and ending up in landfills.

Food & Nutrition

Asotin County Food Bank Association

Provide food and other necessities to asotin county residents in need.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent Depaul and the most unlike its peers is Ilwaco Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$178,836Food & Nutrition$74,460Human Services$13,250Animals$5,300Philanthropy$4,633Arts & Culture$3,000Crime & Legal$3,000

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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 organisation HERBERT M ZAHL FOUNDATION 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HIS SUPPER TABLE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 911983799 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HIS SUPPER TABLE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Herbert M Zahl Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Herbert M Zahl Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HERBERT M ZAHL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Herbert M Zahl Foundation?

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HERBERT M ZAHL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Herbert M Zahl Foundation?

More from the funding graph