· Private foundation
James P and Margaret L Zehnder Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 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, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $473k
- $250k+1 grant · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $525,000 |
| THE LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $200,000 |
| OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $57,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $32,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| CHAPTERS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,414 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $10,413 |
| EYEWITNESS FOR LIFE LTD | $5,413 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $526k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +68% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2020, 16 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $631k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC3× · 2017–2020 · $526k · revenue +131%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +120%- BFBread For The World Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- AFAHWC FOUNDATION HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FHFLORIDA HOSPITAL WESLEY CHAPEL INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TCTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $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.
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How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 62 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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James P and Margaret L Zehnder Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James P and Margaret L Zehnder Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
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