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The Gwladys and John Zurlo Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Gwladys and John Zurlo Charitable 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.

$613k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.9MHuman Services$544kYouth Development$534kEnvironment$437kReligion$360kPublic Safety & Disaster$137kInternational$116kPublic Benefit$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $211k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES$115,000
NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION$75,000
HILLSIDES HOME FOR CHILDREN$50,000
MAYO CLINIC$50,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$50,000
GREENSPRINGS FIRE & RESCUE$30,000
NATURE BRIDGE$25,000
AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE$21,500
ASANTE FOUNDATION$20,000
TALENT MAKER CITY$18,500
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$18,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$16,500
TUNNELS TO TOWERS$16,500
PACIFIC FOREST TRUST$15,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $536k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $75k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $75k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $75k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $75k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $70k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $47k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $43k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $38k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $36k → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $1k → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 53 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
16

Total granted

$4.2M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+78%

Still filing today

72%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $574k · revenue +92%
  • ASANTE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +36%
  • PH
    PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
    8× · 2017–2025 · $292k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • PH
    PIH Health Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +3%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CASCADE SISKIYOU NATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +117%
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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
10
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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11
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Neighborhood Food Project. 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

52 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. 52 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $574,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELESASANTE FOUNDATION: $540,000 · HealthASANTE FOUNDATIONPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $292,000 · HealthPIH Health Good Samaritan HospitalCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $81,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $75,000 · HealthAUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE INC: $68,500 · Health+5 more: $131,500 · Health+5 moreHILLSIDES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $360,000 · OtherHILLSIDES HOME FOR CHILDRENALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $360,000 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHCEDARS SINAI HOSPITAL: $76,500 · OtherOHRA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $75,000 · OtherThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $60,000 · OtherPIH Health Inc: $60,000 · Other+35 more: $470,000 · Other+35 moreNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $534,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD YO…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $78,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesNATUREBRIDGE: $110,000 · EnvironmentOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: $39,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $32,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $12,000 · EnvironmentConservation Lands Foundation: $10,000 · EnvironmentPACIFIC RIVERS: $10,000 · Environment+2 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentGREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE: $130,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOREGON FIRE CHIEFS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $25,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $18,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,750 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,250 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $4,000 · International+2 more: $6,000 · InternationalPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $94,500 · Public Benefit
Health$1,762,000Other$1,461,500Human Services$614,500Environment$243,000Public Safety & Disaster$137,000International$115,500Public Benefit$94,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $574,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetASANTE FOUNDATION: $540,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $534,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $292,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE: $130,000 over 9y, 29% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $94,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $81,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $78,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE INC: $68,500 over 9y, 15% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPIH Health Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $49,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROGUE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTALENT MAKER CITY: $43,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: $39,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKLAMATH BIRD OBSERVATORY: $29,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON FIRE CHIEFS FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSILVIX RESOURCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds ASANTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital ↗
  • Who funds GREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds PIH Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds ROGUE COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds TALENT MAKER CITY ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild ↗
  • Who funds ASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KLAMATH BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
  • Who funds ASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …Harry & Yvonne Lenart…The Carpenter Foundat…Carrico Family Founda…Quinn Hill FoundationElizabeth G Maughan C…Gardner Grout Foundat…The Avista FoundationAnna May Family Found…Raymond Family Founda…Wilburforce FoundationSangham Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR28.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Harry & Yvonne Lenart Charitable Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · Quinn Hill Foundation · Elizabeth G Maughan Charitable Foundation · Gardner Grout Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Anna May Family Foundation · Raymond Family Foundation · Wilburforce Foundation · Sangham 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 Gwladys and John Zurlo Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gwladys and John Zurlo Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Klamath Bird Observatory: 100% of income from government
  • The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery: 38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greensprings Fire and Rescue: 18% of income from government
  • Rogue Community Health: 13% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: 2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ashland Community Hospital Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The Gwladys and John Zurlo Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 77 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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