· Private foundation
Zimmer Biomet Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $370k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $976k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $1,096,602 |
| MOVEMENT IS LIFE INC | $1,000,000 |
| OPM EDUCATION INC DBA NTH DIMENSIONS | $275,000 |
| ALTAMED FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| J ROBERT GLADDEN SOCIETY DBA J ROBERT GLADDEN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY | $175,000 |
| WARSAW COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION | $150,000 |
| THE PERRY INITIATIVE | $125,000 |
| KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| E4E RELIEF LLC | $101,005 |
| RUTH JACKSON ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS | $50,000 |
| ELEVATEMED INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES | $50,000 |
| ORTHOPEDICS CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| GRACE SCHOOLS DBA GRACE COLLEGE | $45,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $326k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Zimmer Biomet Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in IN; read by stated purpose it is 12% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
42 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $502k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ERE4E RELIEF LLC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +21%
- TPThe Perry Initiative5× · 2021–2025 · $495k · revenue +241% · 43% of their budget
- RJRUTH JACKSON ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY4× · 2020–2025 · $424k · revenue +165% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- NNAACPone grant, 2020 · $500k
- OEOPM EDUCATION INCone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +73% · 40% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Interact for health is a foundation that works with communities to advance health justice to ensure that people in our region are healthy and thriving, regardless of who they are or where they live. more information is available on our…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akhuwat Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 42% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 119 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 MOVEMENT IS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Perry Initiative ↗
- Who funds RUTH JACKSON ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPM EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALTAMED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grace Schools ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds J ROBERT GLADDEN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO COMMUNITY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds WAGON WHEEL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds ORTHOPEDICS CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATEMED INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
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: Kosciusko County Community Foundation Inc · Aws Foundation Inc · RJ Miller Family Foundation Inc · The Dr Dane & Mary Louise Miller Foundation Inc · Kosciusko 21st Century Foundation Inc Aka K21 Health Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Terry L and Sandra K Tucker Family Foundation Trust · United Way of Kosciusko County Inc · Hand Family Foundation Inc · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Parkview Health System Inc · Dekko Foundation Inc
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 Zimmer Biomet Foundation Inc 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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