· Private foundation
Samuel Urcis and Marion Zola 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k65 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOGEN DAVID ADOM | $50,500 |
| THEATRE FORTY INC | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $3,000 |
| PARKINSON FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIES | $1,575 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| FOUR CORNERS EQUINE RESCUE | $600 |
| CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF ANIMALS | $500 |
| STAND WITH US | $500 |
| COMPANION ANIMAL PROTECTION | $500 |
| CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL | $500 |
| MARA ELE PROJECT | $500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $500 |
| ANIMALS ASIA FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- TFTHEATRE FORTY2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +25%
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +52%
- POPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +31%
Funded once
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +55%- TCTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +18%
- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +42%
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.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Protection of animal rights
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Peace 4 animals animal welfare organization supports the conservation of endangered species worldwide. we work on campaigns to promote advocacy and education on how to protect wildlife in peril, as well as the preservation of their natural…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is In Defense of Animals and the most unlike its peers is Parkinson Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 105 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 THEATRE FORTY ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Asia Wild ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds LANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS THEATRE GUILD ↗
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dedication and Everlasting Love to Animals ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS 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: Joseph K & Inez Eichenbaum Foundation · The J R Stein Family Foundation (F/K/A the Stein Family Fund) · Bradford Family Foundation · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Gat Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Samuel Urcis and Marion Zola 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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