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The Zemeckis Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEANA | $25,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $5,000 |
| LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| USC SHOAH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D (FORMERLY JDRF) | $2,000 |
| MICHAEL PATTERSON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| STATE STREET BALLET | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MONTECITO LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DREAM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE ELEPHANT PROJECT EVERY ORG | $840 |
| PITZER COLLEGE | $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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SSSTATE STREET BALLET2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +6%
- AAAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +29%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- OIOCEANA, INC.one grant, 2022 · $25k
- SBSANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2022 · $9k
- SBSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +29%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heal the Ocean Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aspen Indigenous Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 47 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 OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE STREET BALLET ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CA TRI COUNTIES BRANCH OF INTL DYSLEXIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Aspen Indigenous Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds Star Paws Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESPARK 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: Mosher Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Www Foundation · Manitou Fund · The Spivey Family Foundation Inc · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · 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 Zemeckis Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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