· Private foundation
Michael Francis Zalla Memorial Foun
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABDOMINAL CANCERS ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| CARE NET | $15,000 |
| WELCOME HOUSE | $10,000 |
| DCCH CENTER | $5,000 |
| ACUE | $5,000 |
| FATHER BEITING APPALACHIAN MISSION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- NKNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +53%
- MAMADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH5× · 2017–2023 · $50k
- CNCARE NET3× · 2018–2025 · $40k
Funded once
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundationone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- SAST AGATHA ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SAST AUGUSTINE CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
The mission of Grace Health is to show the love and share the truth of Jesus Christ to southeastern Kentucky through access to compassionate, high quality primary health care for the whole person.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Provide a safe and caring program for youth that inspires hope for the future and stresses personal responsibility within an atmosphere of respect for everyone.
Rockcastle hospital is organized to provide medical care to members of its community. the hospital has a policy of accepting all patients within its primary service area regardless of ability to pay. mission: rockcastle hospital and…
Provides and maintains a home for widows and orphans of deceased masons of kentucky and provides nursing and medical care to certain residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diocesan Catholic Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Perceptions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 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 NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF COVINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PERCEPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRHAVEN RESCUE MISSION ↗
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: George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · Duke Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · Miramar Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Michael Francis Zalla Memorial Foun 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.