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Jack A & Marilyn M Zuber Char Trust at a glance

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Jack A & Marilyn M Zuber Char Trust

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.

$171k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$545kPhilanthropy$300kHealth$127kReligion$75kArts & Culture$39kHuman Services$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $109k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDAT$26,000
CITY OF HOPE$22,500
IGBY INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES$10,000
ST VITUS CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CATHOLIC TEXTBOOK PROJECT$10,000
ST AUGUSTINE ACADEMY$10,000
LOUISEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$8,500
MOUNT CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE$5,000
BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$5,000
CARE$5,000
PREGNANCY COUNSELING CENTER$5,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10k → 9%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%LA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $7k → 14%WESPARK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 14%JOHN A CARIELLO CHARITABLE TRUST: $100k → 14%JOHN A CARIELLO CHARITABLE TRUST: $100k → 14%JOHN A CARIELLO CHARITABLE TRUST: $100k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%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

IL
NY
PA
CA
VA
KS
HI
TX
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$840k · 17 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$840k
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-1%

Still filing today

53%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TA
    THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +9%
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $43k · revenue +222%
  • SA
    ST AUGUSTINE ACADEMY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • ET
    EDWIN T ELEANOR L MEYER CHARITABLE
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +267%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $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
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
4
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
5
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
6
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
7
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

—
8
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

—
9
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

—
10
Ave Maria University Inc

University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church

Education
11
Loyola Marymount University

Organization's mission loyola marymount university maintains a three-fold mission: 1)the encouragement of learning, 2) the education of the whole person, and 3)the service of faith and the promotion of justice.

Education
12
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoag Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is John a Cariello Charitable Trust. 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

26 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. 26 of the 47 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
11/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDWIN T ELEANOR L MEYER CHARITABLE: $100,000 · OtherEDWIN T ELEANOR L MEYER CHARITABLEST VITUS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $79,223 · OtherST VITUS CATHOLIC CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF HOPE: $66,350 · OtherCITY OF HOPESOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $23,500 · Other+21 more: $150,054 · Other+21 moreJohn A Cariello Charitable Trust: $300,000 · Human ServicesJohn A Cariello Charitable Tru…+5 more: $29,000 · Human Services+5 moreTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLE…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $43,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FO…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHE…ST AUGUSTINE ACADEMY: $22,000 · EducationST AUGUSTINE ACADEMYThe Good Shepherd Academy: $15,000 · EducationThe Good Shepherd Ac…COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationIGBY INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $64,596 · ReligionCATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · ReligionHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $17,500 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$489,127Human Services$329,000Education$220,000Religion$77,096Health$45,000Public Safety & Disaster$26,000Arts & Culture$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohn A Cariello Charitable Trust: $300,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIGBY INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $64,596 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST AUGUSTINE ACADEMY: $22,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Academy: $15,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCATHOLIC POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY AKA SAINT JUNIPERO SERRA UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetMARIAN OUTREACH: $12,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES HAWAII: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA LA Community Aid: $7,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoice of Orange CountyOrg: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY COUNSELING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALOHA HARVEST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESPARK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Melinda Lee Meyer Cha…William Schampeau Cha…Steffi L Morris Chari…John A Cariello Chari…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ TrusteeCA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Melinda Lee Meyer Charitable Trust CO Mark Eskander ESQ Trustee · William Schampeau Charitable Trust · Steffi L Morris Charitable Trust co Mark Eskander ESQ · John A Cariello Charitable Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jack A & Marilyn M Zuber Char Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack A & Marilyn M Zuber Char Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to Jack A & Marilyn M Zuber Char Trust?

Find your warmest path to Jack A & Marilyn M Zuber Char Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 47 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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