How much does Richard a Zappala Family Foundation give?

Richard a Zappala Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $331,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Richard a Zappala Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Education (17%), Health (16%).

Who are Richard a Zappala Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ($595k), La Roche University ($225k), United Way of Martin County Inc ($135k).

Does Richard a Zappala Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Richard a Zappala Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Richard a Zappala Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc, The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Where is Richard a Zappala Family Foundation based?

Richard a Zappala Family Foundation is based in PA.

Richard a Zappala Family Foundation

Richard a Zappala Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$331k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$67k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$648kEducation$335kHealth$306kYouth Development$155kReligion$152kPhilanthropy$140kHuman Services$105kArts & Culture$51kOther$0

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $73k
$10k–50k7 grants · $142k
$50k–250k2 grants · $117k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
KANE CENTERCOUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY	$5,000
CHRIST THE KING PARISH	$5,000
BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF GREATER PITTSBURGH	$5,000
TYKES & TEENS	$5,000
DC FAMILY YOUTH INITIATIVES	$5,000
HOUSE OF HOPE	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 44 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

-11%

Still filing today

57%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

PB
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
9× · 2017–2025 · $595k · revenue +116%
PL
PROJECT LIFT INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +456%
AF
AMD3 FOUNDATION
7× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +123%

Funded once

TE
THE ELLIS SCHOOL
one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +23%
SO
SISTERS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE
one grant, 2022 · $10k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $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.

Point Park University

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…

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The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

St Mary's University

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.

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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

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…

Health

University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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Marietta College

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…

Education

Delaware Valley University

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 65 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/36

Grantees still filing

21/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Development$688,000Other$560,750Education$342,600Philanthropy$141,000Health$123,000Science & Tech$52,000Housing & Shelter$47,250

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.

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.

Hillman Family FoundationsPA20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Richard a Zappala Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard a Zappala Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home