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Michael Francis Zalla Memorial Foun at a glance

· Private foundation

Michael Francis Zalla Memorial Foun

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$358kReligion$79kHuman Services$58kHealth$57kHousing & Shelter$20kFood & Nutrition$6kEnvironment$3k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$971k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%ABDOMINAL CANCERS ALLIANCE: $20k → 19%MADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $30k → 11%ST AGATHA ACADEMY: $10k → 15%KENTUCKY HEARTWOOD: $3k → 16%FATHER BEITING APPALACHIAN MISSION: $5k → 26%CARE NET: $15k → 11%FATHER BEITING APPALACHIAN MISSION: $5k → 26%MADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $10k → 11%WELCOME HOUSE: $10k → 11%COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%WELCOME HOUSE: $10k → 11%COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 11%THE POINT: $5k → 11%ACUE: $5k → 11%MADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $5k → 11%THE POINT: $5k → 11%MOTHER OF GOD CATHOLIC CHURCH: $4k → 11%THE ALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC URBAN EDU: $3k → 11%MADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 11%MADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3k → 11%FAIR HAVEN RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 11%CARE NET: $20k → 11%REDWOOD SCHOOL: $10k → 11%REDWOOD SCHOOL: $10k → 11%REDWOOD SCHOOL: $10k → 11%REDWOOD SCHOOL: $10k → 11%CARE NET: $5k → 11%DCCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $5k → 11%NEW PERCEPTIONS INCS: $5k → 11%DCCH CENTER: $5k → 11%ST AUGUSTINE CHURCH: $10k → 11%NEW PERCEPTIONS: $2k → 11%ST BARBARA CONFERENCE SVDP: $3k → 11%ST BARBARA CONFERENCE SVDP: $3k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 11%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$487k · 12 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$487k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+18%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • NK
    NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +53%
  • MA
    MADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    5× · 2017–2023 · $50k
  • CN
    CARE NET
    3× · 2018–2025 · $40k

Funded once

  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • SA
    ST AGATHA ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • SA
    ST AUGUSTINE CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

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
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
2
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
3
Welcome House Inc

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…

Health
4
The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

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…

Human Services
5
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
6
Ccmh Corporation

Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.

Health
7
Grace Community Health Center Inc

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.

Health
8
Mercy Health

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…

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9
Conway Hospital Community Services

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.

Health
10
United Methodist Home for Children Inc

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.

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11
Rockcastle Hospital & Respiratory Care Center Inc

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…

Health
12
Masonic Homes of Kentucky Inc

Provides and maintains a home for widows and orphans of deceased masons of kentucky and provides nursing and medical care to certain residents.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Diocesan Catholic Children's Home Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherMADISON AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCHCARE NET: $40,000 · OtherCARE NETREDWOOD SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherREDWOOD SCHOOLNKU HONORS PROGRAM: $30,000 · OtherNKU HONORS PROGRAMCOVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherCOVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLABDOMINAL CANCERS ALLIANCE: $20,000 · OtherABDOMINAL CANCERS ALLIANCEST AGATHA ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherST AUGUSTINE CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherTHE POINT: $10,000 · OtherFATHER BEITING APPALACHIAN MISSION: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $42,000 · Other+10 moreNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCWELCOME HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $20,000 · ReligionCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF COVINGTON INC: $6,000 · HealthKENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC: $3,000 · Environment
Other$282,000Education$250,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Religion$20,000Health$6,000Environment$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF COVINGTON INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRHAVEN RESCUE MISSION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW PERCEPTIONS 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.

  • 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 FAIRHAVEN RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds NEW PERCEPTIONS INC ↗

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.

George and Mary Jo Bu…The R C Durr Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationBaird Foundation IncThe Fischer Family Fo…St Elizabeth Medical …Miramar Charitable Fo…United Way of Greater…The Greater Cincinnat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J BudigKY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Michael Francis Zalla Memorial Foun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Francis Zalla Memorial Foun. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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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