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Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$13,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$39k0%
FY20244$80k0%
FY20234$121k50%
FY20223$39k0%
FY20214$88k0%
FY20204$80kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$149kEducation$122kHealth$122kAnimals$55k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Proliteracy Worldwide$121,50060%
Rescue Mission Alliance$66,50030%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($259k), not named here.

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About Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50

How much does Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50 give?
Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50 reported 3 grants totaling $39,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Education (27%), Health (27%).
Who are Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Proliteracy Worldwide ($122k), Rescue Mission Alliance ($67k).
Does Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50 based?
Theodore E & Bernice C Zorn 50 is based in OH.

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 6 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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