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Zanin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$86k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2024
25
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$22,500
Organizations funded a year
20 to 38
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$588k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Zanin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEnvironmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving28$86k11%
FY202325$71k8%
FY202222$58k5%
FY202126$54k27%
FY202020$38k30%
FY201921$38k19%
FY201838$36k32%
FY201736$29kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$160kHealth$89kEducation$54kEnvironment$28kPhilanthropy$26kYouth Development$9kRecreation & Sports$4kHuman Services$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($332k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zanin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilderness Workshop: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEarthjustice: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRiver Bridge Regional Center Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHospice of the Valley Inc: $6,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Hope Center: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCarbondale Community Access Radio: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAspen Hall of Fame: $3,800 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetPathfinders: $3,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetStepping Stones of the Roaring Fork Valley: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForest Conservancy: $2,600 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Homeless Shelter: $1,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Historical Society: $1,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Way Out Inc: $1,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Compassion Adventures Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAndy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program: $1,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Youth Center: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHopeWest: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHelp Me See Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Aspen: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlpine Legal Services Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndependence Pass Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Parkinson Disease Assoc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Fred and Elli Iselin Foundation · Ruth a Carver Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Arches Foundation · Castaways Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Zanin Family Foundation

How much does Zanin Family Foundation give?
Zanin Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $85,550 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Zanin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Health (22%), Education (13%).
Who are Zanin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wilderness Workshop ($13k), Earthjustice ($13k), River Bridge Regional Center Inc ($7k).
Does Zanin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zanin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Zanin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Rocky Mountain Health Foundation.
Where is Zanin Family Foundation based?
Zanin Family Foundation is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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