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The Zions Bancorporation 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k141 grants · $422k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $566k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELTER THE HOMELESS COMMITTEE INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER | $70,000 |
| RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| MALIHEH FREE CLINIC | $50,000 |
| STELLA H OAKS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| ACCESSITY | $34,000 |
| CHILDRENS CENTER | $33,000 |
| LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY | $25,000 |
| GARY AND JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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, $487k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
230 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2024, 134 since wound down; 64 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k 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
United Way of Greater Houston5× · 2020–2024 · $507k · revenue +10%- KGKEN GARFF FOR GOOD3× · 2020–2023 · $443k · revenue +135%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $353k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- PCPark City Education Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $114k · revenue +42%
- IHINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -13%
- USUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
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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Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
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Innovatively utilize resources to preserve & create quality affordable multi-family housing committed to fulfilling individual housing needs and stabilize neighborhoods.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Free Enterprise Institute. 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% 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.
495 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. 495 of the 545 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIT TO RECOVER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSITY ↗
- Who funds Greater Houston Partnership Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
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- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
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: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · The Methodist Hospital · United Way of Southern Nevada · Strake Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · BBVA Foundation · The Elkins 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 Zions Bancorporation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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