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Zazulak Burian Foundation Inc at a glance

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Zazulak Burian Foundation Inc

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.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$272kHealth$245kArts & Culture$235kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kReligion$100kCivil Rights$91kInternational$56kEducation$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$620k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL$20,000
UNITED UK AMERICAN RELIEF COMM$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
WINTER WONDERLAND$10,000
HARFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GREATER BEL AIR FOUUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $75k → 14%YMCA: $25k → 11%Y OF CENTRAL MARYLAND: $10k → 11%HARLEM CHILDREN ZONE: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
PA
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
$910k · 13 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$910k
$341k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+25%

Still filing today

62%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • UE
    UKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +57%
  • UC
    Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $162k · revenue +83%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HO
    HEART OF THE ROSE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • SP
    SUICIDE PREVENTION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • HC
    HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -55%
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
Hh Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
2
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
3
Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
4
Upper Chesapeake Medical Center Inc

Upper chesapeake medical center is dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of the people in its communities through an integrated health delivery system that provides high quality care to all. ucmc is committed to service…

Health
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
7
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
8
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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9
United States Fund for Unicef

The organization's mission is to relentlessly pursue a better world for every child. unicef usa advances the global mission of unicef by rallying the american public to support the world's most vulnerable children. through fundraising,…

International
10
University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health System Inc

To assist in the management of and to provide services to related healthcare affiliates.

Health
11
Franklin Square Hospital Center Inc

See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.

Health
12
Washington Hospital Center Corporation

See schedule oas a proud member of medstar health, medstar washington hospital center's (mwhc) mission is to deliver exceptional patient-first health care and an exceptional patient experience. mwhc is renowned for handling the region's…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Freya Project Inc. 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 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $136,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEART OF THE ROSE INC: $100,000 · OtherHEART OF THE ROSE INCALBERT P CHASE FOUNDATION: $32,000 · OtherALBERT P CHASE FOUNDATIONTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherSUICIDE PREVENTION: $25,000 · OtherUNITED UK AMERICAN RELIEF COMM: $20,000 · OtherWINTER WONDERLAND INC: $20,000 · OtherUKRAIN EDUCATION CULTURAL CENTER: $20,000 · OtherTHE HARFORD DAY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Other+18 more: $145,500 · Other+18 moreUKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER: $215,000 · Arts & CultureUKRAINIAN EDUCATIO…Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc: $161,500 · HealthUpper Chesapeake…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $10,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $85,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILD…YMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF CUMB…Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's …THE FREYA PROJECT INC: $90,000 · Public BenefitPERU FUND CO EVELYN REDA: $50,000 · ReligionBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $30,000 · Youth Development
Other$578,500Arts & Culture$215,000Health$191,500Human Services$145,000Public Benefit$90,000Religion$50,000Youth Development$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL CENTER: $215,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetUpper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc: $161,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FREYA PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 4y, 72% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERU FUND CO EVELYN REDA: $50,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWINTER WONDERLAND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE HARFORD DAY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEL AIR DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED UKRAINIAN AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Kleins Shoprite of Ma…The Dresher Foundatio…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund IncMD15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund Inc · The Dresher Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–75%
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.

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 40 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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