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Zellis 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $979k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rheumatology Research Foundation | $500,000 |
| The University of Colorado Foundation | $500,000 |
| JEWISHcolorado | $350,000 |
| Congregation Emanuel | $320,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $200,000 |
| Northwestern University | $150,000 |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $140,000 |
| Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing | $129,139 |
| National Ramah Commission Inc | $60,000 |
| Heart and Armor Foundation | $50,000 |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $50,000 |
| Hearing Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Harold Grinspoon Foundation | $50,000 |
| Seeds of Peace | $50,000 |
| CommunityHealth | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $597k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $770k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +3%
- RRRheumatology Research Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $800k · revenue +150%
Northwestern University3× · 2022–2024 · $450k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- HGHAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION (PJ LIBRARY PROGRAM)one grant, 2021 · $50k
- CACOLORADO ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearing Loss Association of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rheumatology Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heart and Armor Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SO ALL MAY EAT INC ↗
- Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROOTS ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Sunbird Initiative ↗
- Who funds HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Zellis Family 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
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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