· Private foundation
Z-Gi Giving Fund
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.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE TAHOE INC | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| SKIDUCK SKIING FOR DISABLED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED | $1,000 |
| THE ZAWADISHA FUND | $1,000 |
| PACIFIC BEACH COALITION | $750 |
| BACK TO EARTH NATURE CONNECTION INC | $750 |
| HEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE | $500 |
| SPIRIT OF THE WIND | $500 |
| BAY AREA WOMENS AND CHILDRENS CENTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
To promote community stewardship and advance scientific knowledge of watersheds through reserarch, monitoring and education for the benefit of the Sierra Nevada region and beyond.
Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships (SWEP) promotes environmental stewardship by connecting students to their community and local environment through comprehensive watershed education and service learning projects.
Our mission: We rescue, rehabilitate, and release orphaned and injured wildlife and educate the community about the health and safety of our wildlife.
Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.
LandPaths' mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. LandPaths creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities.
BestStart Washington gives children their best start toward lifelong success and resilience by working to improve their physical health, emotional wellbeing and academic achievement. Founded and governed by pediatricians, BestStart…
The Tahoe Backcountry Alliance is the voice for the human-powered winter backcountry community in the Lake Tahoe area, advocating for and informing our community about critical issues affecting winter backcountry recreation in and around…
Promote the understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education.
The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.
Educational
To provide wilderness education through youth backcountry programs and community events centered around love for the natural world. We work to connect human hearts with the everyday wild through adventure, scientific inquiry, storytelling,…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE ↗
- Who funds THE ZAWADISHA FUND ↗
- Who funds SKIDUCK SKIING FOR DISABLED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN AND OLDER ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Beach Coalition ↗
- Who funds Back to Earth Nature Connection ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Womens and Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Z-Gi Giving Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Z-Gi Giving Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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