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Zeppelin 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.

$8k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$8,190
Largest grant, FY2023
$8,190
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Zeppelin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$8k0%
FY20225$17k0%
FY20214$6k25%
FY20207$35k57%
FY20198$14k50%
FY201812$67k58%
FY201710$104kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$184kHealth$22kYouth Development$14kEducation$12kPhilanthropy$9kCommunity Improvement$6kHuman Services$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zeppelin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLa Clinica Tepeyac: $21,680 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetProject VOYCE: $13,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetColorado Symphony Association: $13,032 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver: $12,290 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $12,212 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Film Society: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLaradon Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational School of Denver: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Symphony Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Big Sandbox: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colorado Nonprofit Development Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPosner Center for International Development: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCurious Theatre Company: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral City Opera House Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Media Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Growhaus: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridge House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

The Denver FoundationCO28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fine Arts Foundation · Bonfils-Stanton Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Merle Chambers Fund · Records Johnston Family Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na

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.

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About Zeppelin Family Foundation

How much does Zeppelin Family Foundation give?
Zeppelin Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $8,190 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Zeppelin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (70%), Health (8%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are Zeppelin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: La Clinica Tepeyac ($22k), Project VOYCE ($14k), Colorado Symphony Association ($13k).
Does Zeppelin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zeppelin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Zeppelin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is Zeppelin Family Foundation based?
Zeppelin Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 29 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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