· Private foundation
The Roy and Ana Zellars Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| DRY BONES DENVER | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SAINT TIMOTHY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $500 |
| FACT RELIEF FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FINMANGO | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of The Roy and Ana Zellars Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 68%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DRDENVER RESCUE MISSION2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +57%
- DBDRY BONES DENVER3× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +74%
- CRCAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +472%
Funded once
- ARACTS RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- H1HOUSING 180one grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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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One Day's Wages is a movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global poverty. One Day's Wages promotes awareness, invites giving, and supports sustainable relief through partnerships, especially with smaller…
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Human Rights for Kids is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights for children. We use an integrated, multi-faceted approach which consists of research & public education, coalition…
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Sos outreach changes young lives, building character and leadership in underserved kids through mentoring outdoors.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Roy and Ana Zellars Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roy and Ana Zellars Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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