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The Malzahn Family Foundation Inc

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.

$37k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$147kHealth$48kRecreation & Sports$40kPhilanthropy$33kReligion$28kHousing & Shelter$15kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$36,738
Median grant
1
States reached
$109k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS$36,738
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ANGEL ARMIES: $90k → 13%EXEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EAST AL: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 37% of The Malzahn Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Malzahn Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$307k · 6 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +283% since the first grant, against +89% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$307k
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+283%
+89%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentReligionEducationOther

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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    2× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +100%
  • EH
    ESPERANZA HOUSE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $22k · revenue +283%
  • BS
    Baby Steps
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue ×13

Funded once

  • FO
    FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +393%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $34k
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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The Timothy Hill Foundation Inc

Timothy hill foundation holds title to two community-based group homes for troubled children. the foundation is committed to strengthening character by modeling christ centered values, transforming hearts and changing lives by loving,…

Community Improvement
2
House of Hope International

See schedule oour mission is the integration of women and children into society, transformed through the power of healing and complete discipleship and vocational training within a safe, loving, and serving community. our vision is to see…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

4
Camerons House of Hope Inc

Camerons House of Hope stands as a beacon of support and stability for children impacted by parental substance use disorder. We work alongside our families by offering academic intervention, individual child and family counseling sessions…

Health
5
Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House

To provide a child-oriented, multidisciplinary forensice interview enviroment facility and counseling center for victims of abuse and their families.

Civil Rights
6
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.

Human Services
7
Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services
8
Christian Heritage Children's Home

Our mission is to change the future of child welfare in nebraska by mobilizing a gospel-centered community to support vulnerable children and families. we offer preventative care for children before they enter foster care, licensed foster…

Human Services
9
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
10
All Church Home for Children Foundation

All church home for children foundation exists to support its sole member, ach child and family services (ach), by managing endowments and providing funds to assist ach in fulfilling its mission. through strength-based partnerships, ach…

Human Services
11
A Friends House Inc

A friends house believes that all children warrant a loving, caring, and safe environment, no matter what circumstances they have encountered in life. the mission is to provide a home that addresses the physical and emotional needs of the…

Human Services
12
Forbes House

The mission of forbes house is empower individuals and families to end the cycle of domestic abuse. the vision of forbes house is to help victims thrive and to foster an end to domestic abuse through education and advocacy.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is By Our Love and the most unlike its peers is Hudson Family 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.

05the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS — $184,688 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSIndividual grant recipient — $33,984 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHIZIK FAMILY FOUNDATION — $30,100 · OtherCHIZIK FAMILY FOUNDATIONCHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS INC — $20,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HIGHLANDS INCALABAMA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES — $20,000 · OtherALABAMA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES+5 more — $21,925 · Other+5 moreFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INCESPERANZA HOUSE INC — $22,000 · Human ServicesESPERANZA HOUSE INCCAMILLE PLACE — $15,000 · Human ServicesCAMILLE PLACE+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $10,000 · HealthATEAM MINISTRIES — $1,500 · HealthBaby Steps — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBY OUR LOVE — $8,000 · ReligionHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Education
Other$310,697Human Services$129,500Youth Development$40,000Health$11,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Religion$8,000Education$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC — $90,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA HOUSE INC — $22,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetBaby Steps — $10,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EAST ALABAMA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetATEAM MINISTRIES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds ESPERANZA HOUSE INC
  • Who funds CAMILLE PLACE
  • Who funds Baby Steps
  • Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama
  • Who funds BY OUR LOVE
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE INC
  • Who funds THE EXCEPTIONAL FOUNDATION OF EAST ALABAMA INC
  • Who funds ATEAM MINISTRIES
  • Who funds HUDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

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.

Alabama Power Foundation IncAL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Travis L Rabren Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Malzahn Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Malzahn Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Malzahn Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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