· Private foundation
The ZAC Foundation for Children's Safety
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $75,500 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $66,836 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $10,111 |
| SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE | $10,000 |
| TEAM KAREEM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL DROWNING PREVENTION ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL DROWNING PREVENTION ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $404k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of The ZAC Foundation for Children's Safety’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.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA4× · 2020–2024 · $463k · revenue +8%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2020–2024 · $369k · revenue +38%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- ABA Better Chicagoone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -16%
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +36%
- JRJASPER RAY FOUNDATION FOR DROWNING PREVENTION ANDone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Bgci believes that every young person deserves to live a life filled with hope and opportunity. because we care about our young people, we provide a safe, educational, and positive atmosphere where they can prosper and reach their full…
Youth health and social, educational, and character development of youth.
To inspire and enable all young people, and especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. we provide prevention-focused programming for youth, ages 2-19, within our core…
The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.
The mission of boys and girls clubs of greater washington is to help boys and girls of all backgrounds, especially those who need us most, build confidence, develop character and acquire the skills needed to become productive,…
To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in washington; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and girls in washington without regard…
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
To provide support for the boys & girls clubs, inc. which provides various educational and recreational services to youth.
The mission of boys & girls clubs of long beach is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nicholas Dworet Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 36 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 MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Diversity in Aquatics ↗
- Who funds SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds National Drowning Prevention Alliance ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLINS HOPE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The LV Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds LADIES OF VIRTUE ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS DWORET MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PATERSON AND PASSAIC INC ↗
- Who funds ABBEY'S HOPE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY 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.
Open a dossier: Pool & Hot Tub Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Good360 · AbbVie Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 ZAC Foundation for Children's Safety 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Safe Kids Worldwide — 1% of income from government
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.
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