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Zinn 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORA YOUTH BASEBALL | $52,000 |
| BRINGHURST COMMUNITY CHURCH | $9,500 |
| CARROLL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CARROLL COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| REBELLION YOUTH INC | $1,000 |
| CARROLL COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION | $800 |
| CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND | $600 |
| FLORA FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $600 |
| FLORA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| BRINGHURST COMMUNITY CHURCH | $400 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $300 |
| CARROLL COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $300 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $200 |
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 (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +134%
- CCCarroll County Food Pantry Inc4× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +73%
- LALOVE AT WORK INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +310% · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SCShepherd Community Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $650 · revenue +119%
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.
Christian Services serves as a resource center and clearinghouse matching resources of over 200 Lansing, MI area churches to needs from local indigent people. Coordination of Thanksgiving food baskets, clothes closets, and transitional…
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
Catholic Community Response Team provides direct support and referral services to those in crisis needing emergency assistance to meet their basic needs. We do it in a manner inspired by the Gospel of Jesus. Our focus is to keep families…
Transformed lives leading to stronger families and real life in Christ
As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…
Religious Orginazation
Religious organization. Church and foodbank. Our church is a small church established in 1907. We have a foodbank serving Elbert County residents that has been in operation for over 30 years.
We mobilize local churches to transform lives and communities in the name of christ by lovingly serving people in need in their communities.
The Christian Mission provides food, clothing, shelter, substance use support, and life skills to bring individuals from crisis to stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kokomo Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Love At Work Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 56 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds Carroll County Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVE AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PURDUE CHRISTIAN CAMPUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIRIO RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORA COMMUNITY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LUCILLE RAINES RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherd Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Zinn Charitable Foundation 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.
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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