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Zephyr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$753k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$352k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.2MHuman Services$4.2MArts & Culture$2.5MRecreation & Sports$1.5MYouth Development$454kPublic Safety & Disaster$322kEducation$213kFood & Nutrition$193kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $354k
  • $250k+1 grant · $352k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER$352,000
WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC$117,000
COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT$100,000
COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOME DELIVERED MEALS$75,000
WELLINGTON EMS INC$62,000
WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC$27,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $3.1M → 17%KIDS INCORPORATED: $150k → 20%CHILDRESS COUNTY: $125k → 20%WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%CITY OF WELLINGTON: $2.4M → 17%CITY OF WELLINGTON: $1.6M → 17%WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $1.3M → 17%COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $750k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $352k → 17%WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $283k → 17%COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $250k → 17%WELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $200k → 17%WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $200k → 17%WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $192k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $176k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $175k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $148k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $125k → 17%WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $117k → 17%WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $102k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $102k → 17%COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $100k → 17%CITY OF WELLINGTON: $100k → 17%COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY MUSEUM: $85k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $83k → 17%WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $76k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $75k → 17%COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOME DELIVERED MEALS: $75k → 17%WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $70k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $63k → 17%WELLINGTON EMS INC: $62k → 17%WELLINGTON ACTIVITY CENTER: $53k → 17%COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOME DELIVERED MEALS: $50k → 17%COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOME DELIVERED MEALS: $50k → 17%WELLINGTOM EMS INC: $50k → 17%WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $46k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $40k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $27k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $27k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $27k → 17%WELLINGTON ISD: $26k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 17%WISD: $25k → 17%WELLINGTON ISD: $25k → 17%WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 17%WELLINGTON SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 12 repeat orgs$834k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$13M
$834k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+38%

Still filing today

58%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • WR
    WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +75% · 89% of their budget
  • WA
    WELLINGTON ACTIVITIES CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +116% · 54% of their budget
  • CC
    Collingsworth County Home Delivered Meals Program
    4× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +264% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • WV
    WELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -80% · 33% of their budget
  • PO
    PANHANDLE OF TEXAS LIONS CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • KC
    KIDS CO
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
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
Washington Volunteer Fire Department

Protection of Rural Homeowners and Property Owners in Washington County Texas.

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2
Waskom Volunteer Fire Department & Ems Services Inc

Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
West Carlisle Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire protection and emergency rescue services to the citizens of lubbock county and west texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Weston Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Provide fire protection for local community

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5
White Deer Volunteer Ems

To provide emergency medical services to the residents of white deer, texas, and the surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Wellman Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection for the city of wellman, ia and surrounding townships.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Welton Volunteer Fire Company

Community fire safety

Public Safety & Disaster
8
El Campo Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

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9
Willington Fire Department Inc 1

Emergency nbsp;fire nbsp;and nbsp;ambulance nbsp;services

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
11
Willacy County Ems Inc

Ambulance service for willacy county texas and surrounding area

Health
12
Westlake Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire fighting ems services

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellington Activities Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Casa of the Rolling Plains. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $4,200,000 · OtherCOLLINGSWORTH COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $4,155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+12 more: $778,500 · Other+12 moreWELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $2,342,500 · Arts & CultureWELLINGTON RITZ THE…WELLINGTON ACTIVITIES CENTER INC: $1,268,500 · Recreation & SportsWELLINGTON…Collingsworth County Home Delivered Meals Program: $193,000 · HealthWELLINGTON EMS INC: $112,000 · HealthWELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $303,510 · Youth DevelopmentWELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $200,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSISTER CORPS INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $107,600 · EducationCASA OF THE ROLLING PLAINS: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$9,133,500Arts & Culture$2,342,500Recreation & Sports$1,268,500Health$305,000Youth Development$303,510Public Safety & Disaster$210,000Education$107,600Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $2,342,500 over 8y, 89% of budgetWELLINGTON ACTIVITIES CENTER INC: $1,268,500 over 9y, 54% of budgetWELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $303,510 over 9y, 65% of budgetWELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $200,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCollingsworth County Home Delivered Meals Program: $193,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetWELLINGTON EMS INC: $112,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $107,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF THE ROLLING PLAINS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSISTER CORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 25% 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.

  • Who funds WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLINGTON ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLINGTON OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Collingsworth County Home Delivered Meals Program ↗
  • Who funds WELLINGTON EMS INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF THE ROLLING PLAINS ↗
  • Who funds SISTER CORPS INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Zephyr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zephyr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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