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The H Evan Zeiger Jr & Margaret Zeiger Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The H Evan Zeiger Jr & Margaret Zeiger Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$442k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$835kPhilanthropy$515kInternational$449kEducation$316kHealth$207kHuman Services$123kYouth Development$117kHousing & Shelter$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k45 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
$4,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$92,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$40,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$40,000
CHARITYVEST INC$40,000
NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
WORLD MEDICAL MISSION$12,000
THE TRUE VINE FOUNDATION$12,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES$10,000
LEGACY MINISTRIES$10,000
CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA$7,000
UNITED WAY OF ALABAMA$6,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BIRMINGHAM$5,000
BIG OAK RANCH$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

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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
IL
WI
IN
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 89 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
7

Total granted

$2.8M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+78%

Still filing today

55%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue ×103
  • NM
    NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +53%
  • Vanderbilt University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • VU
    VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY- KEEGAN FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • LS
    LEGACY SCHOOL OF DISCIPLESHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • TR
    THE RESTORATION ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +78%
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.

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Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
2
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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4
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
5
Wisdom Hunters Resources Inc

Wisdom hunters resources, inc., an atlanta-based ministry created to encourage christians (a.k.a wisdom hunters) to apply god's unchanging truth in a changing world. the organization impacts wisdom hunters in over 86 countries across the…

Recreation & Sports
6
Every Generation Ministries Inc

Every generation minstries is an international, interdenominational, christian organization which ministers together with local churches to develop effective ministry to children and families. the organization strives to equip overseas…

Religion
7
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
8
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
9
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
10
Brother Bryan Mission

Brother bryan mission is a christ centered ministry serving economically, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished individuals in the birmingham, alabama area. the mission's goal is for each of its clients to return to their environment…

Human Services
11
Entrust

Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…

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12
But God Ministries

Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mockingbird Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mentone Educational Resources Foundation Inc. 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

55 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. 55 of the 100 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
41/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEGACY MINISTRY: $134,000 · OtherLEGACY MINISTRYIndividual grant recipient: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMFAITH FAMILY CLINIC: $85,000 · OtherWORLD MEDICAL MISSION: $69,000 · OtherBRIARWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $62,000 · Other+62 more: $1,126,375 · Other+62 moreNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $379,625 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIA…CHARITYVEST INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITYVEST INC+1 more: $14,500 · PhilanthropyNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $140,000 · ReligionNATIONS MINISTRY…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $92,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURS…The True Vine A Christian Foundation: $90,000 · ReligionThe True Vine A …LEGACY MINISTRIES: $50,000 · ReligionLEGACY MINISTRIE…BLOODWATER MISSION INC: $17,500 · ReligionHydrating Humanity Inc: $16,000 · Religion+4 more: $34,375 · Religion+4 moreVanderbilt University: $100,000 · EducationPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $62,000 · EducationTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationEATING DISORDERS COALITION OF TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $53,000 · InternationalPIONEER61 INC: $33,875 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $18,000 · InternationalSweetwater Outreach Inc: $17,500 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $16,000 · InternationalNEVERTHIRST INC: $10,250 · InternationalBIG OAK RANCH INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON THREAD COMMUNITY: $25,000 · Human ServicesM-POWER Ministries: $16,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesCorner To Corner: $4,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $40,000 · HealthLAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $16,000 · Health
Other$1,681,375Philanthropy$474,125Religion$439,875Education$197,000International$148,625Human Services$89,000Health$72,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $379,625 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONS MINISTRY CENTER: $140,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetVanderbilt University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $92,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe True Vine A Christian Foundation: $90,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCHARITYVEST INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $62,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC: $56,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $53,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC: $34,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPIONEER61 INC: $33,875 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION: $30,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $26,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON THREAD COMMUNITY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $21,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $19,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBLOODWATER MISSION INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSweetwater Outreach Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDREN: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHydrating Humanity Inc: $16,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetM-POWER Ministries: $16,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM: $16,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMentone Educational Resources Foundation Inc: $14,500 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetAlabama Institute for Social Justice: $14,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVECO: $12,375 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNEVERTHIRST INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEATING DISORDERS COALITION OF TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLatin Impact Ministries Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOCKINGBIRD MINISTRIES INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% 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 NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONS MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds The True Vine A Christian Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHARITYVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BETTER BASICS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER61 INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BIRMINGHAM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON THREAD COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗

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 Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Protective Life Found…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Mike and Gillian Good…Alabama Power Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…Orlean & Ralph W Bees…Robert R Meyer Founda…Altecstyslinger Found…Servant FoundationCampbell Estelle S Ch…
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL41.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Servant Foundation · Campbell Estelle S Char 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 H Evan Zeiger Jr & Margaret Zeiger Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The H Evan Zeiger Jr & Margaret Zeiger Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 H Evan Zeiger Jr & Margaret Zeiger 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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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