· Private foundation
Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BCACS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ALL SPECIES KINSHIP | $55,000 |
| SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| BINDER PARK ZOO | $40,000 |
| BATTLE CREEK ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $20,000 |
| SHERMAN LAKE YMCA CAMP | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| ALANO CLUB | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MISSION | $7,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MISSION | $7,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MISSION | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +168%
Binder Park Zoological Society Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $355k · revenue +74%
SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +71%
Funded once
Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Centergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +35%- HCHERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Community financial credit union is a state chartered, not-for-profit, full-service financial institution owned and governed by its membership. at community financial, we are committed to our members and our communities,for over 70 years.…
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
None
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Binder Park Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALL SPECIES KINSHIP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds KINGMAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds CIR INC ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Battle Creek Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Miller Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Burnham Family Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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