· Private foundation
Zahn Family Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HATFIELD FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| TINY SEED PROJECT | $5,000 |
| DAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DPDAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +60%
- NSNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +44%
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- HHHATFIELD HISTORICAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $5k
- HAHATFIELD AMERICAN LEGION POST 344one grant, 2023 · $2k
- ALAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY-POST 344one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Connect residents of hampshire and franklin counties to food, clothing, healthcare, wellness and community, primarily through volunteer efforts.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
Engaging the community to end hunger
Haymarket people's fund is an anti-racist and multi-cultural foundation that is committed to strengthening the movement for social justice in new england. through grantmaking, fundraising, and capacity building, we support grassroots…
To create social change by taking action against personal and societal patterns of violence and oppression. hawc provides services and support to victims of domestic violence in 23 cities and towns on massachusetts' north shore.
We advance the health, welfare and safety of animals and people.
Provide food shelter and care (including veterinary care) to homeless animals of the greater hazleton area.
To improve the health and well-being of pregnant women, children and families in hillsborough county
The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.
The humane society of the high plains' mission is to foster the humane treatment of animals through education, human-animal relations, shelter, cruelty reporting and animal control.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hatfield Firefighters Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 Hatfield Firefighters Association ↗
- Who funds DAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HATFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds TINY SEED PROJECT INC ↗
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: Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Zahn Family Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Safe Passage Inc — 64% of income from government
- The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc — 9% of income from government
- Tiny Seed Project Inc — 2% of income from government
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.