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Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
76
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$14MHealth$5.5MEducation$5.4MYouth Development$4.9MCrime & Legal$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.8MArts & Culture$1.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.4M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT (STEP)$3,100,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCA AT CAMP PENDLETON$250,000
OUTDOOR OUTREACH$150,000
FREE TO THRIVE$150,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SD$125,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS$100,000
CASA DE AMPARO$100,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SD$75,000
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC$60,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SD COUNTY INC$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$50,000
PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA SAN DIEGO$50,000
CRISIS HOUSE$50,000
SAN DIEGO PARKS FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $30k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $35k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $35k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $330k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $330k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $330k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $50k → 11%NOAH HOMES: $50k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $30k → 11%NOAH HOMES INC: $30k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $100k → 11%CRISIS HOUSE: $179k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $250k → 11%CRISIS HOUSE: $50k → 11%CASA DE AMPARO: $100k → 11%CRISIS HOUSE: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $250k → 11%SAN DIEGO OASIS: $1.0M → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $50k → 11%ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%SAY SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%ELDERHELP: $30k → 11%ELDERHELP: $30k → 11%ELDERHELP: $30k → 11%GENERATEHOPE INC: $50k → 11%GENERATEHOPE INC: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
NY
RI
CA
VA
NM
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$38M · 158 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

158 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2025, 88 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

158
55

Total granted

$38M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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

  • ST
    SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +343% · 41% of their budget
  • TI
    TERI Inc
    3× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +60%
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • TP
    THRIVE PUBLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -82%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
3
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
4
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
5
Sport Innovators

To establish San Diego and Southern California as the core of the healthy living, sports and active lifestyle community. Through supporting companies at all stages, we help create jobs, but not just any jobs, jobs that make our city and…

Philanthropy
6
Associated Students of San Diego State University

To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.

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7
Ucp San Diego

The mission of the san diego cooperative preschool is to provide the highest quality care, while creating a nurturing and supportive community of children, parents, and highly skilled staff. through a play-based program that attends to the…

Education
8
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
9
San Diego-Imperial Council Boy Scouts of America

To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.

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10
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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11
San Diego County Bar Association

The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…

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12
San Diego Double Ten Committee
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Center for Children and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability & Vulnerable Pop…San Diego Community Foundat…Christian International Min…Community Health CentersResidential Community Assoc…Refugee & Immigrant ServicesSchool District FoundationsYouth Sports LeaguesRiver & Land ConservationAffordable Housing Developm…Jewish Community ServicesPerforming Arts Organizatio…Labor Union LocalsHigher Education Support Or…Regional Business AdvocacyYouth Development and Mento…Performing Arts Organizatio…Family Philanthropic Founda…Senior Housing and Care Ser…Membership & Community Orga…Biomedical Research & Innov…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr16%3%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr10%16%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr12%12%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/182
the rest of the field
15%
2,128/14,579

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.

04the grantee network

178 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. 178 of the 222 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
172/178
Grantees still filing
139/178
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY — $900,000 · OtherINTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO — $860,002 · OtherARMED SERVICES YMCA — $824,800 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $1,050,000 · OtherVOICES FOR CHILDREN+112 more — $14,387,000 · Other+112 moreNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $1,340,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY LIF…SAN DIEGO OASIS — $1,155,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO OASISSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC — $400,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ADVOCATES…CRISIS HOUSE — $379,350 · Human ServicesCRISIS HOUSECasa De Amparo — $350,000 · Human ServicesCasa De AmparoSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $320,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $240,000 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $230,000 · Human ServicesNOAH HOMES INC — $227,500 · Human ServicesRise Up Industries — $220,000 · Human Services+13 more — $1,295,000 · Human Services+13 moreTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE …OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $1,060,000 · EducationOCEAN DISCOVER…MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $775,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHOOL…+20 more — $1,165,415 · Education+20 moreSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $4,360,000 · Public BenefitSUPPORT THE …+6 more — $267,500 · Public Benefit+6 moreJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $1,300,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUTDOOR OUTREACH — $710,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $235,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of North County — $230,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD — $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EAST CO INC — $120,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $235,000 · Youth DevelopmentTERI Inc — $2,500,000 · ReligionFOREVER BALBOA PARK — $240,000 · ReligionST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC — $170,000 · Religion+1 more — $45,000 · ReligionCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $510,000 · HealthBonner General Hospital Foundation Inc — $196,500 · HealthEmilio Nares Foundation — $160,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S SAN DIEGO — $125,000 · HealthAUTISM TREE PROJECT INC — $95,000 · HealthSEANY FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Health+10 more — $253,000 · Health
Other$18,021,802Human Services$6,156,850Education$5,500,415Public Benefit$4,627,500Youth Development$3,135,000Religion$2,955,000Health$1,399,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $4,360,000 over 9y, 41% of budgetTERI Inc — $2,500,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $1,340,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $1,300,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetSAN DIEGO OASIS — $1,155,000 over 7y, 27% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $1,060,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $1,050,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetINTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO — $860,002 over 7y, 22% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT — $775,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH — $710,000 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $510,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $500,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS — $465,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK — $432,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC — $400,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC — $400,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetCRISIS HOUSE — $379,350 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetFREE TO THRIVE — $375,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $370,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetCasa De Amparo — $350,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC — $320,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $275,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL — $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Parks Foundation — $250,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $240,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFOREVER BALBOA PARK — $240,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO — $235,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC — $230,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $230,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of North County — $230,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC — $227,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetELEMENTARY INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE — $225,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY & CONSERVATORY — $225,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCEANSIDE INC — $224,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetRise Up Industries — $220,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $215,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN — $200,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC — $200,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBonner General Hospital Foundation Inc — $196,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetLIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER — $190,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetASELTINE SCHOOL — $180,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS — $175,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY — $170,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budget
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 SUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds TERI Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO OASIS ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH SHELTER NETWORK OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds OUTDOOR OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS ↗
  • Who funds PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO BLOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO KIDS GOLF ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds FREE TO THRIVE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
  • Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF VISTA HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds San Diego Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOREVER BALBOA PARK ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC ↗
  • Who funds ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO ↗

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.

David C Copley Founda…The Conrad Prebys Fou…The San Diego Foundat…Price Philanthropies …Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Cushman FoundationJewish Community Foun…The Nordson Corporati…The Parker FoundationPratt Memorial FundSempra FoundationSamuel I & John Henry…
David C Copley FoundationCA149.3× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Sempra Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox 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 Walter J & Betty C Zable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    70report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 222 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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