· Private foundation
The Zelenka Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD VISION | $26,000 |
| COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE WOMEN OF VISION | $16,240 |
| WATER AFRICA | $16,000 |
| LAKE GROVE PRES CHURCH | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROCKAWAY BEACH LIBRARY | $1,800 |
| BAY CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP COALITION | $1,000 |
| TILLAMOOK ANGLERS | $1,000 |
| TILLAMOOK COUNTY LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| ROCKAWAY BEACH VOLUNTEERFIREFIGHTER | $500 |
| ROCKAWAY MEALS FOR SENIORS | $250 |
| NCAM | $150 |
| BAY CITY ARTS CENTER | $50 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WWaterAfrica5× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue -27%
- CWCOLUMBIA WILLAMETTE WOMEN OF VISION3× · 2023–2025 · $37k
- TRTWIN ROCKS FRIENDS CAMP4× · 2020–2024 · $30k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- WAWATER AFRICAone grant, 2023 · $10k
- COCITY OF ROCKAWAY BEACHone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
Educate about,support, and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture
Our Food Production Center will serve as our primary storage production and distribution facility. The coop will aggregate purchase store and distribute farm inputs for members and will act as an integrator collecting the output from…
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…
The Orca K-8 PTSA works together with the Orca K-8 community to educate the whole child with a focus on social justice and environmental science. We strive to create an environment where students understand not only the connections between…
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
To enhance and protect the resources of the South Santiam River watershed for the social, environmental, and economic benefit of all who live, work, and visit.
Education on the science of climate change & how to take actions addressing the consequences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cebuano Speaking Organization Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 37 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds WaterAfrica ↗
- Who funds Lower Nehalem Community Trust ↗
- Who funds Stepping Stone Missions ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER ↗
- Who funds TILLAMOOK ANGLERS INC ↗
- Who funds US Global Leadership Campaign ↗
- Who funds Rosati-Kain Academy ↗
- Who funds Rockaway Beach Volunteer Firefighters Inc ↗
- Who funds HOME ORCHARD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CEBUANO SPEAKING ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE IVY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BAY CITY ARTS CENTER 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Zelenka Family Foundation 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.
- Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
- Lower Nehalem Community Trust — 2% 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.