· Private foundation
The Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH HOMES | $40,000 |
| PLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION & RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| OPEN HEART KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA & SOLANO | $25,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION | $25,000 |
| WHITE PONY EXPRESS | $25,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $25,000 |
| HONOR FLIGHT NETWORK | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| HEROIC GARDENS | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $498k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- WPWHITE PONY EXPRESS5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +3%
- FBFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO5× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +55%
- REREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- OOOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern Californiaone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -26%
- AANOVAone grant, 2023 · $35k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVEone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -25%
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.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…
The mission of yolo food bank is to make yolo county a thriving community where everyone has the resources they need to experience health, prosperity, and a high quality of life. Yolo Food bank durably increases food and nutrition security…
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.
Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.
Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community.
Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHITE PONY EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds Youth Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds La Casa de las Madres ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE ↗
- Who funds PLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
- Who funds GRATEFUL GATHERINGS ↗
- Who funds Heroic Gardens ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Russian Riverkeeper ↗
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: The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Heffernan Group Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Justice Justice Foundation · John Muir Health
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 Edward R and Elizabeth a Kozel 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.
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.