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Herbert M Zahl Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,400
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$804k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Herbert M Zahl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$35k0%
FY20247$35k0%
FY20238$40k38%
FY20228$44k13%
FY20216$35k0%
FY20205$34k60%
FY20195$33k60%
FY20188$18k50%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$133kAnimals$58kHousing & Shelter$39kEducation$23kArts & Culture$17kHuman Services$17kCrime & Legal$15kReligion$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
His Supper Table$45,730912%
Rebuilding Together Pacific County$38,800516%
Ocean Park Food Bank$29,93066%
Chinook Food Pantry Inc$17,9803n/a
Society of St Vincent de Paul Waukesha County Inc St Dismas$11,95033%
Friends of Chinook School$11,95034%
Food Backpacks 4 Kids$7,50012%
The Community Table Inc$6,8002n/a
Peninsula Poverty Response Ppr$5,3001n/a
Back Pack for Kids$4,6331n/a
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All grantees of Herbert M Zahl Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
His Supper Table$45,730912%
Rebuilding Together Pacific County$38,800516%
Ocean Park Food Bank$29,93066%
Chinook Food Pantry Inc$17,9803n/a
Society of St Vincent de Paul Waukesha County Inc St Dismas$11,95033%
Friends of Chinook School$11,95034%
Food Backpacks 4 Kids$7,50012%
The Community Table Inc$6,8002n/a
Peninsula Poverty Response Ppr$5,3001n/a
Back Pack for Kids$4,6331n/a
Camp Victory$3,00023%
Ilwaco Heritage Foundation Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum$3,00012%
Sea Resources$2,0001n/a
Ocean Park Lutheran Church$2,0001n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Herbert M Zahl Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHis Supper Table: $45,730 over 9y, 12% of budgetRebuilding Together Pacific County: $38,800 over 5y, 16% of budgetOcean Park Food Bank: $29,930 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Waukesha County Inc St Dismas: $11,950 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFriends of Chinook School: $11,950 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetFood Backpacks 4 Kids: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCamp Victory: $3,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetIlwaco Heritage Foundation Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum: $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Templin FoundationWA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Templin Foundation · South Pacific County Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Herbert M Zahl Foundation

How much does Herbert M Zahl Foundation give?
Herbert M Zahl Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $34,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Herbert M Zahl Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (42%), Animals (18%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are Herbert M Zahl Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: His Supper Table ($46k), Rebuilding Together Pacific County ($39k), Ocean Park Food Bank ($30k).
Does Herbert M Zahl Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Herbert M Zahl Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Herbert M Zahl Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Templin Foundation, South Pacific County Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Herbert M Zahl Foundation based?
Herbert M Zahl Foundation is based in TX.

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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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