How much does The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation give?

The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $202,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (35%), Human Services (18%), Health (13%).

Who are The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercy Center Ministries ($280k), Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc ($51k), Homeless Youth Connection Inc ($50k).

Does The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.

Where is The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation based?

The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation is based in AZ.

The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation

The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$202k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$367kHuman Services$189kHealth$137kYouth Development$113kEducation$66kArts & Culture$61kInternational$36kAnimals$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k23 grants · $112k
$10k–50k6 grants · $90k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Mercy Center Ministries	$25,000
Welcome to America Project	$25,000
Border Solidarity	$10,000
Chiricahua Community Health Centers	$10,000
Central AZ Shelter Services	$10,000
Prescott Area Shelter Service	$10,000
Chestene Cloverdale Food Pantry	$8,000
Individual grant recipient	$8,000
Child Crisis Arizona	$7,500
Valley Life	$7,500
Northwell Health - Family Medicine	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
ICAN	$5,000
Northwell Health - Family Medicine	$5,000
Foster Your Future	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $402k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 44 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+6%

Still filing today

70%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

MC
MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +96%
PA
Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc
7× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +187%
HY
Homeless Youth Connection Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +397%

Funded once

CC
Chiriahua Com Health Centers
one grant, 2023 · $10k
CA
Central AZ Shelter Service
one grant, 2023 · $10k
FM
FAMILY MEDICAL GROUP OF NORTHWELL
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

La Paloma Family Services Inc

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

Hope House of Sedona provides families experiencing homelessness access to safe haven, support, and tools for lasting stability.

Housing & Shelter

Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter

Foster 360

Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.

Human Services

Our Family Services Inc

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…

—

Against Abuse Inc

To provide services, support, and education to all who experience the effects of family dysfunction and/or violence, past and present.

Human Services

Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services

Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services

Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services

Onward Hope Incorporated

We are committed to improving and assisting the successful transition of at-risk young people to independent adulthood and supporting resilient families, by connecting them to resources.

Human Services

Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services

House of Refuge Sunnyslope Inc

Our mission is to love, house, and equip men, women and children. coming from chronic unemployment, recovery, or an endless cycle of homelessness, our residents experience a clean, safe home where transforming their life can begin.…

Housing & Shelter

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise - Greater Phoenix; 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.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 93 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/47

Grantees still filing

30/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$515,500Other$446,761Youth Development$84,000Housing & Shelter$71,000Health$62,500Employment$47,500Education$35,500

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.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ40.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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