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Zavatsky Brott 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOFT CINEMA | $5,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI HOMELESS COALITION - STREET VIBES | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $4,000 |
| SPCA CINCINNATI | $4,000 |
| SONORAN INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| MILL CREEK ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| WALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI | $4,000 |
| ANGEL'S WATCH | $4,000 |
| THE NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM | $3,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PIMA ANIMAL CARE CENTER | $1,000 |
| USO | $1,000 |
| WATERSHED MANAGEMENT GROUP | $1,000 |
| OLD PUEBLO COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your 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.
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.
The Coalition's mission is to protect the biodiversity of the Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona through science-based advocacy, education, and collaboration.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
To work collaboratively for a healthy flowing verde river system.
To improve greater tucson and the state of arizona by bringing together resources and leadership to enhance the economic climate and quality of life in our communities.
The San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water, and healthy lands - the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.
As the official philanthropic and collaborative partner of the grand canyon national park, grand canyon conservancy's mission is to inspire generations of park champions to cherish and support the natural and cultural wonder of the grand…
Vision: a healthy and resilient big thompson watershed benefitting fish, wildlife, and the people itserves through collaborative efforts for current and future generations. mission: working with others to take action that protects and…
Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Wild Arizonas mission is to protect, unite, and restore wild lands and waters across Arizona and beyond, for the enrichment and health of all generations, and to ensure Arizona's native plants and animals a lasting home in wild nature.
We are a community oasis where reverence for the cultural and natural ecology of the sonoran desert region inspires responsible stewardship so that future generations may thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is Live Theatre Workshop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds LOFT CINEMA INC FKA TUCSON CINEMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MILL CREEK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC ↗
- Who funds Watershed Management Group Inc ↗
- Who funds SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Pima Animal Care Center ↗
- Who funds ISKASHITAA REFUGEE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Live Theatre Workshop ↗
- Who funds LIVING STREETS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Old Pueblo Community Services ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Zavatsky Brott 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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