· Private foundation
Richard and Kathleen Zacky Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of RICHARD AND KATHLEEN ZACKY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS SINAI CANCER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JOHN MADDEN FOOTBALL CENTER | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| FOOD LITERACY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CRISTO REY SACRAMENTO HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CHURCH | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTA BARBARA LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY18–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Richard and Kathleen Zacky Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- CCCENTRAL COAST AQUARIUM4× · 2017–2020 · $54k · revenue +22%
- TFThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +291%
- FTFairytale Town Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ZFZACKY FAMILY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +379%
- CBCP BASEBALL BAGGETT STADIUMone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CPCAL POLY BASEBALL CLUBHOUSE PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The friends of santa ana zoo is a nonprofit corporation organized to develop financial support, growth, and community awareness for the santa ana zoo.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
To educate and support the agricultural community.
The mission of fresh approach is to create long-term change in local food systems by connecting california communities with healthy food from california farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.
The santa barbara zoo is dedicated to the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the natural world and its living treasures through education, research, recreation and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Literacy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Zacky Family Foundation Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 50 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 ZACKY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST AQUARIUM ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
- Who funds AVILA BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CITY WITHOUT ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prison Yoga Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Focus Forward ↗
- Who funds WEST SACRAMENTO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Literacy Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation ↗
- Who funds WORLD TELEHEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION 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: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile 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 and Kathleen Zacky 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 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.
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