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Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund

Honor the life of lt. Dennis w. Zilinski ii killed in action by providing support to improve the morale and welfare of u.s. Armed forces and their families. Additionally to provide scholarships to individuals who embody his leadership qualities and community spirit

$325k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$229k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,996
Largest grant, FY2024
$195,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$432k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Public BenefitHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2024still arriving5$229k0%
FY20234$149k0%
FY20224$211k25%
FY20215$127k40%
FY20205$140k20%
FY20198$454k63%
FY20183$108k33%
FY20173$264kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.3MEducation$175kPublic Benefit$80kHuman Services$42kRecreation & Sports$20kArts & Culture$14kHousing & Shelter$12kHealth$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
K9s for Warriors Inc$1,320,06083%
Christian Brothers Academy$157,5008n/a
Wreaths Across America$59,94660%
Mission Working Dogs$42,00137%
Nj Run for the Fallen Inc$20,00468%
Buffalo Warriors Hockey$20,000213%
Trinity Hall$17,50010%
T&L of the Southtowns Ltd$14,2131n/a
Hanlon's K9 Dog Training Academy$7,5001n/a
Lakeview Loan Services$7,1421n/a
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
K9s for Warriors Inc$1,320,06083%
Christian Brothers Academy$157,5008n/a
Wreaths Across America$59,94660%
Mission Working Dogs$42,00137%
Nj Run for the Fallen Inc$20,00468%
Buffalo Warriors Hockey$20,000213%
Trinity Hall$17,50010%
T&L of the Southtowns Ltd$14,2131n/a
Hanlon's K9 Dog Training Academy$7,5001n/a
Lakeview Loan Services$7,1421n/a
Camp4Heroes Inc$6,00012%
Lakeview Loan Servicing$5,3551n/a
Fisher House Foundation Inc$5,00110%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $1,320,060 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetWreaths Across America: $59,946 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMission Working Dogs: $42,001 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetNj Run for the Fallen Inc: $20,004 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetBuffalo Warriors Hockey: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTrinity Hall: $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp4Heroes Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $5,001 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund

How much does Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund give?
Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund reported 5 itemized grants totaling $228,998, out of $324,912 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (79%), Education (10%), Public Benefit (5%).
Who are Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: K9s for Warriors Inc ($1.3M), Christian Brothers Academy ($158k), Wreaths Across America ($60k).
Does Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund based?
Lt Dennis W Zilinski II Memorial Fund is based in NJ.

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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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