· Private foundation
Z Supply 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $50,000 |
| CSULB 49ER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| THE NEW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SAN CLEMENTE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,067 |
| AUXILIARY OF INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY | $2,800 |
| ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION | $2,087 |
| MIRACLES FOR KIDS | $2,000 |
| NEWPORT HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL | $305 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Z Supply Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +26%
- LBLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +49%
- SCSavannah College of Art and DesignInc2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- KCKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +3%
- BBABY2BABYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +100%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OC AND INLAND EMPIRE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Laguna college of art & design prepares individuals for careers as creative artists and designers in a culturally and ethnically diverse world through a curriculum that emphasizes acquiring skills based on observation, representation, and…
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
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: 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 Supply Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Z Supply Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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