· Private foundation
Herbert M Zahl Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REBUILDING TOGETHER | $7,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,400 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHINOOK SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| HIS SUPPER TABLE | $4,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $4,000 |
| OCEAN PARK FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| ILWACO HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 67% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HSHIS SUPPER TABLE9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +45%
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER PACIFIC COUNTY5× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +35%
- OPOCEAN PARK FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +316%
- PPPENINSULA POVERTY RESPONSE PPRgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +126%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
food pantry
Providing food to those in need.
Homeless Shelter
Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
helping homeless with auppling them with supplies to help them
Food Pantry for the Community to provide food and other household items, including back to school items for Kids.
Using community resources such as volunteer labor, donated foods, goods and money, the group provides a wholesome free meal once a week to those in need. WNWN also provides emergency food and necessities during the rest of the week as…
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.
The Organization provides food and material assistance at no cost to persons or families who are unable to provide for their own needs.
To provide food to those in need due to emergency situations.
Local area distribution of both perishable and non-perishable food to low income households by community volunteers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Backpacks 4 Kids and the most unlike its peers is Ilwaco Heritage Foundation Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 HIS SUPPER TABLE ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PACIFIC COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OCEAN PARK FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ST DISMAS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Chinook School ↗
- Who funds FOOD BACKPACKS 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds The Community Table Inc ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA POVERTY RESPONSE PPR ↗
- Who funds BACK PACK FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds CAMP VICTORY ↗
- Who funds ILWACO HERITAGE FOUNDATION COLUMBIA PACIFIC HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
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: Templin Foundation · South Pacific County Community Foundation · 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 organization 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.
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.