· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FLORA FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $600 |
| CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zinn Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zinn Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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