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Zarpet Family Foundation at a glance

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Zarpet 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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.6MEducation$1.2MFood & Nutrition$210kInternational$150kHealth$140kHuman Services$100kAnimals$100kHousing & Shelter$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Groundworks Art Lab$1,000,000
Denver Film Society$1,000,000
The University of Colorado Foundation$658,445
Yahad In Unum Mid America$50,000
Emergency Family Assistance Association$25,000
Ah Haa School for the Arts$15,000
Anti-Defamation League$10,000
CU Boulder Hillel Foundation$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OZONE HOUSE: $15k → 14%Boulder Jewish Community Center: $10k → 12%OZONE HOUSE: $15k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $25k → 14%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $25k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $20k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 8 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$3.3M
$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GA
    GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +115% · 40% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +3%
  • MA
    MAD AGRICULTURE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • CH
    COLORADO HORSE RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +497%
  • PH
    PROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +0%
  • WA
    Wyatt Academygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +57%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
4
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
5
Denver Academy of Torah

Denver academy of torah (the "school")provides education to students from kindergarten through high school. the school's mission is to nuture students to be torah-observant role models and future leaders through an intellectually rigorous…

Education
6
Denver Children's Choir

To provide a challenging environment where children can reach their full potential by enhancing their musical talents, forging diverse meaningful friendships, and sharing their joy of music with others.

Arts & Culture
7
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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8
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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9
Denver Jewish Day School

To ensure a jewish future by challenging minds and nurturing souls with a focus on academic excellence and jewish learning.

Education
10
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
11
Congregation Har Shalom

Har Shalom is an active center of Jewish learning and worship serving all of Northern Colorado. We are intentionally non-denominational and egalitarian, serving a wide diversity of spiritual paths. Our synagogue membership of 200+ families…

Religion
12
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boulder Community Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Denver Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INCDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER FILM SOCIETY+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,169,905 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDA…+1 more: $30,000 · EducationMAD AGRICULTURE: $200,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $90,000 · Human ServicesOZONE HOUSE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesYAHAD- IN UNUM MID-AMERICA: $150,000 · InternationalAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $65,000 · OtherHebrew Day School of Ann Arbor: $25,000 · OtherLearning Independence for Tomorrow (LIFT): $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $15,000 · OtherCU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherMotus Theatre in Boulder: $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $100,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherCAFE MOMENTUM: $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $40,000 · HealthBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,510,000Education$1,199,905Food & Nutrition$210,000Human Services$155,000International$150,000Other$275,000Health$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,169,905 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMAD AGRICULTURE: $200,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetYAHAD- IN UNUM MID-AMERICA: $150,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $65,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOZONE HOUSE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWyatt Academy: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHebrew Day School of Ann Arbor: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Rose Community Founda…Kissinger Family Foun…The Denver FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Baird Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Rose Community Foundation · Kissinger Family Foundation Inc · The Denver Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Zarpet Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zarpet Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Zarpet Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Zarpet Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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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