· Private foundation
Richard a Zappala Family Foundation
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.
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 $10k22 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN | $67,000 |
| LA ROCHE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CAPITOL HILL | $35,000 |
| ADDICTION RECOVERY MINISTRY CO STFRANCIS OF ASSISI | $30,000 |
| AMD3 FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PROJECT LIFT | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY | $15,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH | $11,500 |
| FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| ST ANDREWS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING PARISH | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- PBPittsburgh Botanic Garden9× · 2017–2025 · $595k · revenue +116%
- PLPROJECT LIFT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +456%
- AFAMD3 FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- TETHE ELLIS SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +23%
- SOSISTERS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tokas Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 65 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 Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds LA ROCHE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds AMD3 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARY'S SHELTER OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TYKES & TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds Martin Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SISTERS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LYRIC INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
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: Hillman Family Foundations · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Fine Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Eqt Foundation · Mathieson Family Foundation · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 · The Rust Foundation
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 Richard a Zappala Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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.