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The Al Marzetta Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Al Marzetta 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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$33kHuman Services$29kEducation$15kArts & Culture$8kHousing & Shelter$6kPhilanthropy$6kYouth Development$4k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$555k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH OUTDOOR UNLIMITED$5,000
PROVIDENCE SACRED HEART CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
HUTTON SETTLEMENT$3,000
CAMP JOURNEY NW$3,000
JOYA CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT$3,000
MOBIUS DISCOVERY CENTER$3,000
FAMILY PROMISE$3,000
VANESSA BEHAN$2,000
2BU YOUTH RANCH$1,000
INNOVIA FOUNDATION$350
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $5k → 14%YOUTH OUTDOOR UNLIMITED: $5k → 14%HUTTON SETTLEMENT: $6k → 12%HUTTON SETTLEMENT: $3k → 12%HUTTON SETTLEMENT: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55k · 5 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$55k
$23k

Still filing today

80%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +83%
  • THE HUTTON SETTLEMENT
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +18%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • DO
    DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • SC
    SHRINERS CHILDREN'S SPOKANE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • P
    PROVIDENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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.

1
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
2
Jensen Memorial Youth Ranch
Education
3
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
4
White Horse Youth Ranch
Animals
5
Olalla Center

To help strengthen and heal children and families, and the community. olalla center's staff believes all children and families can heal and this premise is the foundation of olalla center's treatment philosophy and the basis for their work.

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6
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
7
Listen and Talk

Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.

Education
8
Sibling Strong

The mission of Sibling Strong is to reunite brothers and sisters who have Washington ties and who are separated because of foster care and other out-of-home care for camps and events that reinforce their sibling connection, encourage…

Human Services
9
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters

Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.

Health
10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
11
Washburn Center for Children

Washburn Center for Children diagnose and treats children in their social, emotional or behavioral development so that they grow into their full potential through therapeutic and healing services that includes their families in a setting…

Health
12
Providence Health & Services - Washington

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Journey Nw. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOBIUS DISCOVERY CENTER: $8,000 · OtherMOBIUS DISCOVERY CENTERDEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: $5,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRSPROVIDENCE SACRED HEART CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE SACRED HEART CHILDREN'S HOSPITALSHRINERS CHILDREN'S SPOKANE: $5,000 · OtherSHRINERS CHILDREN'S SPOKANEPROVIDENCE: $5,000 · OtherPROVIDENCESHRINERS HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALSpokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center: $3,000 · OtherSpokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular CenterNW SPOKANE SALLY'S HOUSE: $3,000 · OtherNW SPOKANE SALLY'S HOUSEFAMILY PROMISE: $3,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISETHE HUTTON SETTLEMENT: $11,500 · Human ServicesTHE HUTTON SETTLEMENTWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCYOUTH OUTDOORS UNLIMITED: $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH OUTDOORS UNLIMITEDSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER T…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…Camp Journey NW: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentVANESSA BEHAN: $2,000 · Crime & Legal2BU YOUTH RANCH: $1,000 · AnimalsInnovia Foundation: $700 · Philanthropy
Other$42,000Human Services$26,500Education$15,000Health$10,000Youth Development$3,000Crime & Legal$2,000Animals$1,000Philanthropy$700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUTTON SETTLEMENT: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

M J Murdock Charitabl…Innovia FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
M J Murdock Charitable TrustWA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Innovia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The Al Marzetta Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Al Marzetta Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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