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Zia Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Zia Charitable 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.

$358k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$416kHealth$141kAnimals$138kEnvironment$57kHousing & Shelter$51kInternational$42kScience & Tech$40kPhilanthropy$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $172k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $151k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNERSTONE RANCH$50,827
MENTAL HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT$50,000
TRINITY COLLEGE$50,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$25,000
THE RIVER WALK FUND$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SNE$5,750
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS$5,318
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH$5,227
AMERICAN HUMANE SOCIETY$5,227
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,222
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS HILL COUNTY$5,215
Individual grant recipient$5,182
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,182
SEA SHEPHED CONSERVATION SOCIETY$5,182
PATHWAYS$5,175
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
$994k · 69 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
25

Total granted

$994k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+14%

Still filing today

68%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
EducationHealthAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +13%
  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +21%
  • CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE STANWICH SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +44%
  • UU
    UNITED UKRAIN AMERICAN RELIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • CF
    CHATHAM FIRE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
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
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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12
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Point Conservancy 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

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
42/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREEN'S FARM ACADEMY: $65,000 · OtherGREEN'S FARM ACADEMYCORNERSTONE RANCH: $63,493 · OtherCORNERSTONE RANCHMENTAL HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECTPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SNE: $40,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SNEHORIZONS AT GREEN FARMS ACADEMY: $33,011 · OtherHORIZONS AT GREEN FARMS ACADEMYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $26,700 · OtherTHE RIVER WALK FUND: $26,100 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $25,298 · Other+54 more: $229,227 · Other+54 moreTRINITY COLLEGE: $115,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGELEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $25,500 · EducationTHE FAY SCHOOL INCGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $23,000 · EducationGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INCETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $20,292 · EducationETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INCOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYPitzer College: $20,000 · EducationPitzer CollegeREACH PREP INC: $16,233 · Education+3 more: $17,868 · Education+3 moreCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,722 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $9,434 · InternationalVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS: $8,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $7,500 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $26,000 · AnimalsSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $10,182 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $5,227 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,050 · AnimalsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $17,546 · HealthPATHWAYS INC: $5,175 · HealthBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $2,250 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · HealthSOUNDWATERS INC: $17,188 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $4,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentGREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC: $2,030 · EnvironmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,681 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,060 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $2,047 · Human Services
Other$558,829Education$317,893International$75,656Animals$57,459Health$55,971Environment$26,218Human Services$21,788

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $25,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $25,298 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $20,292 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $17,546 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $17,192 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC: $17,188 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREACH PREP INC: $16,233 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,681 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC: $11,331 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $10,534 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $10,182 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,722 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $9,434 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $9,318 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $9,227 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $8,030 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STANWICH SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $7,050 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $5,227 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $5,175 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM FIRE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,060 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $4,052 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $2,047 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $2,040 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds THE FAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Pitzer College ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
  • Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS ↗
  • Who funds THE STANWICH SCHOOL 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Garden Homes FundMalkin Fund IncSteven & Alexandra Co…Newman's Own Foundati…National Philanthropi…The Bessemer Giving F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Garden Homes Fund · Malkin Fund Inc · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
  • South Africa Partners Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
12report 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 102 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home