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Zet Foundation at a glance

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Zet 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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$6k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$16kEducation$10kRecreation & Sports$4kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kYouth Development$500Animals$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$204k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHOLE WOMANS HEALTH$6,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR$1,500
GREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$500
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$500
COLBY COLLEGE$500
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$500
KIDS IN CRISIS$500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Montgomery Hospice: $100 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
MD
TN
NC
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25k · 8 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$25k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+30%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FO
    Friends of Greenwich Crew Inc
    3× · 2019–2023 · $2k · revenue +14%
  • The President and Trustees of Colby College
    2× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +21%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $750 · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • WC
    WILLIAMS COLLEGE BOATHOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • FO
    FRIEND OF COLBY COLLEGE ATHLETICS
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • WC
    WILLIAMS COLLEGE - CREW TEAM
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Quinnipiac University

To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Greenwich Crew Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHOLE WOMANS HEALTH: $14,000 · OtherWHOLE WOMANS HEALTHNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $3,075 · OtherNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INCWILLIAMS COLLEGE BOATHOUSE: $2,500 · OtherWILLIAMS COLLEGE BOATHOUSECOLBY COLLEGE TRUE BLUE CHALLENGE: $2,000 · OtherCOLBY COLLEGE TRUE BLUE CHALLENGEFRIEND OF COLBY COLLEGE ATHLETICS: $1,500 · OtherFRIEND OF COLBY COLLEGE ATHLETICSWILLIAMS COLLEGE - CREW TEAM: $1,500 · OtherWILLIAMS COLLEGE - CREW TEAMCos Cob Volunteer Fire Department: $1,000 · Other+7 more: $1,804 · Other+7 moreFriends of Greenwich Crew Inc: $2,311 · EducationFriends of Greenwic…The President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,050 · EducationThe President and T…GREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $1,000 · EducationGREENWICH ALLIANCE …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $750 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNN…GREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · EducationGREENWICH SCHOLARSH…Williams College: $500 · EducationWilliams College+2 more: $250 · EducationHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $100 · HealthGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $750 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $50 · PhilanthropyK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $500 · AnimalsMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $100 · Human Services
Other$27,379Education$6,361Health$1,600Philanthropy$800Animals$500Human Services$100

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 budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $3,075 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Greenwich Crew Inc: $2,311 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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