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Zerrusen Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Zerrusen Family Foundation

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.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0168% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$645kEducation$598kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kHuman Services$110kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH$80,000
TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$15,000
TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $128k → 19%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $5k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $5k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $5k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $5k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $5k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $5k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH: $5k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $80k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $80k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $80k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $80k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $75k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $75k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $75k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $70k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $55k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $50k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT: $50k → 9%ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $30k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $15k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DIS: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $15k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $15k → 9%K OF C COUNCIL 2874: $15k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS PARK DISTRICT: $10k → 9%TEUTOPOLIS PARK DISTRICT: $10k → 9%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 6 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$1.4M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+127%

Still filing today

17%
25%

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
PhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • SF
    ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $630k
  • TE
    TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +36% · 65% of their budget
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $110k

Funded once

  • University of Illinois Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $128k · revenue +127%
  • KO
    K OF C COUNCIL 2874
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • TF
    TEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DIS
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH: $630,000 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCHCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $110,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCTEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $95,225 · OtherTEUTOPOLIS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $35,000 · OtherTEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $470,000 · PhilanthropyTEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $127,713 · EducationUniversit…
Other$980,225Philanthropy$470,000Education$127,713

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $470,000 over 9y, 65% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $127,713 over 1y, 0.1% 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 TEUTOPOLIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 10 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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