How much does The Zoe Foundation give?

The Zoe Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $443,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Zoe Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (34%), Human Services (12%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are The Zoe Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc ($410k), Northampton Survival Center Inc ($340k), Safe Passage Inc ($137k).

Does The Zoe Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Zoe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is The Zoe Foundation based?

The Zoe Foundation is based in MA.

The Zoe Foundation

The Zoe Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Zoe Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Zoe Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$443k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$863kHuman Services$302kArts & Culture$300kHousing & Shelter$198kHealth$177kAnimals$164kPublic Safety & Disaster$159kEnvironment$124kOther$0

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $134k
$10k–50k12 grants · $179k
$50k–250k2 grants · $130k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS	$80,000
NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER	$50,000
NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA	$35,000
SAFE PASSAGE	$16,000
DAKIN HUMANE SHELTER	$15,000
TAPESTRY HEALTH	$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$15,000
MANNA SOUP KITCHEN	$14,000
TJ O'CONNOR ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER	$13,000
FISHER HOME	$12,000
CENTER FOR SELF-RELIANCE	$12,000
CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FOUNDATION	$12,000
NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER	$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS	$10,000
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS	$8,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $467k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 40 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+4%

Still filing today

57%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +133%
NS
NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +44%
SP
SAFE PASSAGE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +89%

Funded once

BARD COLLEGEgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +241%
WM
WINTERTHUR MUSEUM
one grant, 2021 · $10k
OR
Ocean River Institute Inc
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +4%

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.

Newton Community Service Centers Inc

Family access empowers and strengthens families and the community by providing programs that nurture child development, prevent trauma, promote effective parenting skills, and support working parents. for more than 117 years, family access…

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Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

The Opacum Land Trust Inc

The mission of opacum land trust is to engage communities in protecting the land, water, and wildlife in south-central massachusetts for the benefit of current and future generations.

Environment

Easton Area Neighborhood Centers Inc

Easton area neighborhood centers, inc. (eanc) is committed to providing an array of services that enhance the quality of life for low- and moderate-income residents of northampton county. through innovative programming, educational…

Human Services

North Central Mass Chamber of Commerce

To foster and improve the general economic conditions of the north central massacusetts area through promotional and educational efforts.

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Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Northampton Community Television Inc

To serve as a model community access organization providing programming and educational opportunities to the community through all means technologically available.

Arts & Culture

Northern Berkshire Community Coalition Inc

Improvement in quality of life in northern berkshire county

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kestrel Land Trust. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/37

Grantees still filing

27/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,584,000Human Services$469,000Education$103,000Food & Nutrition$97,500Environment$94,000Health$90,000Arts & Culture$75,500

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

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA55.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · Ro Family Foundation · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Hurdle Hill Foundation · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation · Living Springs 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 Zoe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zoe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

5rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home