· Private foundation
The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercy Center Ministries | $25,000 |
| Border Solidarity | $12,000 |
| Chiricahua Community Health Center | $10,000 |
| Central AZ Shelter Services | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Homeless Youth Connection | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Valley Life | $7,500 |
| Unlimited Potential | $7,500 |
| PASS | $7,500 |
| Shelter Box USA | $6,000 |
| Down Syndrome Assn of Low Country | $5,000 |
| Koenig Childhood Caner Foundation | $5,000 |
| AZ Friends of Foster Children | $5,000 |
| Family Promise of Greater Indianapo | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 18 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- MCMERCY CENTER MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +96%
- HYHomeless Youth Connection Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +397%
- PAPrescott Area Shelter Services Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $41k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- CACentral AZ Shelter Serviceone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FMFAMILY MEDICAL GROUP OF NORTHWELLone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CCChiriahua Com Health Centersone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
Hope House of Sedona provides families experiencing homelessness access to safe haven, support, and tools for lasting stability.
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
Our Family's mission is to eliminate homelessness and strengthen our community. We do this by providing stability in times of crisis, linking people to support and resources, supporting social connectedness, engaging our neighbors to…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
To provide services, support, and education to all who experience the effects of family dysfunction and/or violence, past and present.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Improving our community by providing exceptional, whole-person healthcare.
AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise - Greater Phoenix and the most unlike its peers is Casa Esperanza Para Ninos. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 87 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 MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Homeless Youth Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEYLIFE ↗
- Who funds UNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Inc ↗
- Who funds DEFENDERS OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds BORDER SOLIDARITY ↗
- Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds Chiricahua Community Health Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOSTER YOUR FUTURE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE - GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME TO AMERICA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Telling Room ↗
- Who funds RANCHO TIERRA MADRA CORP ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Schulz Charitable Foundation Inc · Thunderbirds Charities · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · American Express 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 The Bozena And Josef Zelenda 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.
- K9S for Warriors 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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