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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
178
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.7MHousing & Shelter$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHealth$1.0MArts & Culture$793kHuman Services$590kRecreation & Sports$394kOther$0
02FY2024 · 178 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k141 grants · $422k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $566k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $440k
$2,640
Median grant
11
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$25,000
GARY AND JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION$25,000
GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$25,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY TREE INC: $4k → 7%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $6k → 9%DOUGLAS COUNTY BACKPACK BUDDIES PROGRAM: $3k → 8%VON'S VISION INC: $5k → 7%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $4k → 11%ECONOMIC COUNCIL HELPING OTHERS INC: $5k → 22%SENIORS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5k → 12%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $5k → 9%DOUGLAS COUNTY BACKPACK BUDDIES PROGRAM: $3k → 8%ECONOMIC COUNCIL HELPING OTHERS INC: $5k → 22%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $5k → 13%ECONOMIC COUNCIL HELPING OTHERS INC: $5k → 22%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 9%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $4k → 14%METROPOLITAN AREA ADVISORY COM ON ANTI-POVERTY OF SAN DIEGO CNTY INC: $10k → 11%METROPOLITAN AREA ADVISORY COM ON ANTI-POVERTY OF SAN DIEGO CNTY INC: $10k → 11%1HOPE FOR KIDS INC: $3k → 16%EARN TO LEARN: $5k → 15%SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $60k → 8%THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $9k → 9%EARN TO LEARN: $5k → 15%HOPE FARM INC: $4k → 11%LIVE THE SOLUTION: $5k → 15%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%EARN TO LEARN: $5k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $25k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $5k → 13%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $3k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $3k → 12%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY INC: $3k → 13%ARIZONA HOUSING COALITION: $5k → 11%ARIZONA HOUSING COALITION: $5k → 11%ARIZONA HOUSING COALITION: $5k → 11%NEVADA SENIOR SERVICES INC: $4k → 13%ARIZONA HOUSING COALTION: $5k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $5k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $4k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $4k → 16%RYAN HOUSE: $5k → 11%MAKING IT BETTER: $5k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $4k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $15k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $4k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $4k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
OR
NV
WY
PA
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 230 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

230
237

Total granted

$7.5M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+25%

Still filing today

94%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • United Way of Greater Houston
    5× · 2020–2024 · $507k · revenue +10%
  • KG
    KEN GARFF FOR GOOD
    3× · 2020–2023 · $443k · revenue +135%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $353k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • PC
    Park City Education Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $114k · revenue +42%
  • UP
    UTAH'S PROMISE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -56%
  • UC
    UTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -90%
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
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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3
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Community Information Now

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.

Community Improvement
6
Valle Del Sol Inc

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.

Health
7
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
8
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
9
Home Matters to Arizona

Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…

Housing & Shelter
10
Housing Plus

Innovatively utilize resources to preserve & create quality affordable multi-family housing committed to fulfilling individual housing needs and stabilize neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

495 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. 495 of the 545 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
92
Early backer (in before they grew)
490/495
Grantees still filing
334/495
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $600,000 · OtherSHELTER THE HOMELESS INCNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $180,000 · Other+101 more: $2,835,315 · Other+101 moreSILICON SLOPES: $366,500 · EducationSILICON SLOPESUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $352,833 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVA…UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationUTAH VALLEY UNIVER…Park City Education Foundation: $113,500 · EducationPark City Educatio…Pastor France A Davis Scholarship Fund Inc: $100,000 · EducationPastor France A Da…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $78,400 · Education+14 more: $360,290 · Education+14 moreUnited Way of Greater Houston: $506,532 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of…UTAH'S PROMISE: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUTAH'S PROMIS…The Community Foundation of Utah: $100,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community…ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $77,500 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY…Richmond Community Foundation: $44,600 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $40,000 · Philanthropy+12 more: $235,425 · Philanthropy+12 moreACCESSITY: $144,000 · Community ImprovementACCESSITYGreater Houston Partnership Foundation: $125,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Ho…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $115,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INIT…Envision Utah: $100,000 · Community ImprovementEnvision U…VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $82,500 · Community ImprovementVENTURA CO…BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $62,500 · Community ImprovementBUSINESSES…CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR…PACIFIC COAST REGIONAL SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRING: $38,000 · Community Improvement+9 more: $150,216 · Community Improvement+9 moreSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd: $200,000 · HealthSt Luke's…FIT TO RECOVER INC: $150,000 · HealthFIT TO RE…LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $103,100 · HealthLUCKY DUC…INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthINTERMOUN…Maliheh Free Clinic: $100,000 · HealthMaliheh F…CENTRO DE SALUD DE LA COMUNIDAD DE SAN YSIDRO INC: $47,500 · HealthCENTRO DE…+8 more: $151,750 · Health+8 moreOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $102,400 · Arts & CultureOLD GLOBE…UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FEST…THE EXPLORATORIUM: $88,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLO…Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association: $80,000 · Arts & CultureUtah Yout…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIE…LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureLION GLOB…THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEU…THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONTE…HALE CENTRE THEATRE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHALE CENT…ARTSFUND: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON: $28,525 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $80,735 · Arts & Culture+5 moreKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $443,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $174,732 · Youth DevelopmentFULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Youth Development+6 more: $86,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,615,315Education$1,571,523Philanthropy$1,144,057Community Improvement$912,216Health$852,350Arts & Culture$834,660Youth Development$753,732

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $600,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $506,532 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $443,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSILICON SLOPES: $366,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $352,833 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $180,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $174,732 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIT TO RECOVER INC: $150,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetACCESSITY: $144,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Houston Partnership Foundation: $125,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $113,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $103,100 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $102,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPastor France A Davis Scholarship Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEnvision Utah: $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $88,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $85,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $82,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUtah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association: $80,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $78,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $77,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Spirit Golf Association: $70,630 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $62,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $55,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTELLA H OAKS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV68.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 3 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Zions Bancorporation Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zions Bancorporation Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
83report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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