· Private foundation
Thomas J Zanios III Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF M | $3,000 |
| PART OF THE SOLUTION | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORT | $2,000 |
| OAKS WOMEN'S CLUB SCHOLARSHIP | $1,250 |
| CLAGETT SAILING | $1,250 |
| HELPING PAWS | $1,000 |
| INTL INSTITUTE OF MN | $1,000 |
| TRANSFIGURATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHUR | $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 (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +128% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- POPART OF THE SOLUTION2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue 0%
- TETHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE MASON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +417%
- HPHELPING PAWS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue -7%
Funded once
WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +37%- CLCLEAR LAKE YACHT CLUB SAILING SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -56%
- TWTHE WOMAN'S CLUB OF RYE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $700 · revenue +62%
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.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To encourage, develop, promote and foster amateur yachting and yacht racing on the inland lakes of the midwest of the united states.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
Chicago yacht club's mission is to encourage and promote the comingling of members through yachting by providing recreation activities, classes and regattas for members and their guests.
At community rowing inc., we are dedicated to fostering a community that is both welcoming and supportive. under the banner of rowing for all we make rowing accessible without regard to individual ability, background or experience.…
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Immigration counseling and advocacy for minority senior citizens
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Part of the Solution and the most unlike its peers is Clagett Sailing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE MASON CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTH IA INC ↗
- Who funds CLAGETT SAILING ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR LAKE YACHT CLUB SAILING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF RYE INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Thomas J Zanios III 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.