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The Zelenka Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$164kHuman Services$37kYouth Development$35kArts & Culture$25kReligion$14kEducation$9kEnvironment$7kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$93k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TILLAMOOK ANGLERS$1,000
TILLAMOOK COUNTY LIBRARY$1,000
BAY CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP COALITION$1,000
ROCKAWAY BEACH VOLUNTEERFIREFIGHTER$500
ROCKAWAY MEALS FOR SENIORS$250
NCAM$150
BAY CITY ARTS CENTER$50
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP COALITION: $1k → 14%STEPPING STONES MISSION: $2k → 17%ROSATI-KAIN ACADEMY: $500 → 21%COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE WOMEN OF VISION: $16k → 8%HOME ORCHARD SOCIETY: $400 → 8%LOWER NEHALEM COMMUNITY TRUST: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $2k → 12%DRIFT CREEK CAMP: $2k → 16%WORLD VISION: $25k → 9%LAKE RETREAT CAMP & CONFERENCE CENT: $1k → 9%STEPPING STONES MISSION: $1k → 17%ROSATI-KAIN ACADEMY: $300 → 21%WATER AFRICA: $16k → 8%LOWER NEHALEM COMMUNITY TRUST: $1k → 12%PDX PUBLIC SCHOOLS NUTRITION PROGRA: $1k → 12%DRIFT CREEK CAMP: $1k → 16%WORLD VISION: $25k → 9%WATER AFRICA: $15k → 8%LOWER NEHALEM COMMUNITY TRUST: $1k → 12%COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $250 → 12%DRIFT CREEK CAMP: $1k → 16%WORLD VISION: $25k → 9%WATER AFRICA: $10k → 8%LOWER NEHALEM COMMUNITY TRUST: $250 → 12%CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $530 → 12%WORLD VISION RWANDA: $25k → 9%WATER AFRICA: $5k → 8%TWIN ROCKS FRIENDS CAMP: $10k → 12%OCEAN: $4k → 12%LAKE GROVE PRES CHURCH: $3k → 8%TWIN ROCKS FRIENDS CAMP: $10k → 12%WATER AFRICA: $3k → 8%TWIN ROCKS FRIENDS CAMP: $5k → 12%LAKE GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 8%TWIN ROCKS FRIENDS CAMP: $5k → 12%CITY OF ROCKAWAY BEACH: $4k → 12%BAY CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 12%BAY CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 12%TWIN ROCKS CHRISTIAN CAMP: $3k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROCKAWAY BEACH: $2k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROCKAWAY BEACH LIBRARY: $2k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROCKAWAY BEACH LIBRARY: $2k → 12%BAY CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 12%ROCKAWAY BEACH VOLUNTEERFIREFIGHTER: $500 → 12%FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $500 → 12%TILLAMOOK ANGLERS: $1k → 12%TILLAMOOK COUNTY LIBRARY: $1k → 12%TILLAMOOK ANGLERS: $520 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 13 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$142k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-5%

Still filing today

46%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsInternationalReligionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • W
    WaterAfrica
    5× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue -27%
  • CW
    COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE WOMEN OF VISION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $37k
  • TR
    TWIN ROCKS FRIENDS CAMP
    4× · 2020–2024 · $30k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • WA
    WATER AFRICA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CO
    CITY OF ROCKAWAY BEACH
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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.

1
Earth Day Oregon
—
2
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
3
South Whidbey Tilth Association

Educate about,support, and promote biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture

Food & Nutrition
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
—
5
Wakulima Usa

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Wild Salmon Rivers

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…

Environment
7
Orca at Columbia Pta

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…

Education
8
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
9
Oregon Olive Growers Foundation
Education
10
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
11
South Santiam Watershed Council

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.

Environment
12
Southern Oregon Climate Action Now

Education on the science of climate change & how to take actions addressing the consequences.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD VISION INC: $104,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCWaterAfrica: $48,700 · InternationalWaterAfricaCOLUMBIA WILLAMETTE WOMEN OF VISION: $37,010 · OtherCOLUMBIA WILLAMETTE WOMEN OF VISIONTWIN ROCKS FRIENDS CAMP: $30,000 · OtherTWIN ROCKS FRIENDS CAMPIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWATER AFRICA: $10,000 · OtherWATER AFRICABAY CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $7,250 · Other+23 more: $32,784 · Other+23 moreLower Nehalem Community Trust: $3,690 · AnimalsTILLAMOOK ANGLERS INC: $1,520 · AnimalsStepping Stone Missions: $2,500 · ReligionCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $1,750 · Recreation & SportsRosati-Kain Academy: $800 · EducationTHE IVY SCHOOL: $100 · EducationRockaway Beach Volunteer Firefighters Inc: $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
International$152,700Other$142,044Animals$5,210Religion$2,500Recreation & Sports$1,750Education$900Public Safety & Disaster$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD VISION INC: $104,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWaterAfrica: $48,700 over 5y, 16% of budgetLower Nehalem Community Trust: $3,690 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetStepping Stone Missions: $2,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTILLAMOOK ANGLERS INC: $1,520 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUS Global Leadership Campaign: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosati-Kain Academy: $800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOME ORCHARD SOCIETY: $400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCEBUANO SPEAKING ORGANIZATION INC: $250 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTHE IVY SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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 Oregon Community …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Zelenka Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zelenka Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Community Cycling Center: 2% of income from government
  • Lower Nehalem Community Trust: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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