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Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd

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.

$13k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$229k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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 arriving13$13k0%
FY202313$13k0%
FY202214$14k21%
FY202112$14k8%
FY202011$14k9%
FY201912$15k8%
FY201812$14k0%
FY201712$14kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$31kHuman Services$25kArts & Culture$23kRecreation & Sports$10kCommunity Improvement$10kYouth Development$7kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrafton Education Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetOzaukee Family Services Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCope Services Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMilwaukee Art Museum Inc: $8,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCelebrate Grafton Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 53% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Grace Youth Camp Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetOzaukee County Historical Society: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOzaukee Nonprofit Center Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% 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 9.

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd 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.

About Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd

How much does Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd give?
Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd reported 13 grants totaling $12,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (23%), Arts & Culture (21%).
Who are Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Grafton Education Foundation Inc ($14k), Ozaukee Family Services Inc ($12k), Cope Services Inc ($12k).
Does Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd 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 Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd based?
Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd is based in WI.

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 18 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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