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Zephyr Impact
ZEPHYR IMPACT is an impact accelerator, designing ambitious and high-impact philanthropic initiatives to address society's most urgent social issues.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $402k
- $250k+9 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $1,000,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| THE SARARA FOUNDATION | $505,000 |
| EDUCATION REIMAGINED | $400,000 |
| MONTESSORI PUBLIC POLICY INITIATIVE | $400,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR | $400,000 |
| SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION | $300,000 |
| PR EDUCATION INITIATIVE CORP | $300,000 |
| THE INDABA EDUCATION FUND INC | $300,000 |
| KIDOGO EARLY YEARS INC | $200,000 |
| THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE | $100,000 |
| UPSTREAM EDUCATION INC | $52,000 |
| PROPEL NONPROFITS | $50,000 |
| MENTORS OF MINORITIES IN EDUCATION | $26,500 |
| GOOD NATURED LEARNING | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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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We design evidence-based programs, innovative tools, and professional learning that reveal how students think about mathematics, giving educators deeper insights that save time and improve instruction. For more than 25 years,…
To transform the experiences, outcomes, and life options for children & families who have been historically underserved by our institutions and systems.
Opening minds facilitates healthy development and quality education for young children.
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
Out teach's mission is to inspire and prepare today's elementary students to explore the wonders of science and become tomorrow's innovators. out teach works to ensure that all studentsregardless of race, zip code, or access to…
To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.
Blue engine optimizes how educators work together to create engaging, individualized learning experiences for students.
yes. every kid. is a leading advocacy team with a families-first approach to transform America's education policy landscape.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Reimagined and the most unlike its peers is Indaba Education Fund Inc Dba Indaba Foundation. 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 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
21 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.
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 Mindful Life Project ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds SARARA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REIMAGINED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR ↗
- Who funds Montessori Public Policy Initiative ↗
- Who funds Indaba Education Fund Inc DBA Indaba Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds PR EDUCATION INITIATIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds Kidogo Early Years Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds UPSTREAM EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROPEL NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds Mentors of Minorities In Education Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE PLUS ME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OUR MINDS MATTER ↗
- Who funds GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN FUTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GOOD NATURED LEARNING ↗
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: Wend II Inc · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Zephyr Impact 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.
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% 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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