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Zion Charity Foundation at a glance

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Zion Charity 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.

$230k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$4.6MEducation$1.1MPublic Benefit$794kReligion$203kPhilanthropy$135kYouth Development$100kHuman Services$59kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY$200,000
OCMD$30,000
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 (FY18–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%HANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER: $10k → 10%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.
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.
$6.3M · 23 repeat orgs$689k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
34

Total granted

$6.3M
$689k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+63%

Still filing today

78%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • PS
    Pacific Symphony
    3× · 2018–2020 · $1.9M · revenue +47%
  • TR
    THE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $634k · revenue +61%
  • CU
    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $557k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +22%
  • BF
    BIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -5%
  • SA
    SAMUELI ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +118%
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
3
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
4
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
5
Asian Hall of Fame

To educate the public about asian contributions to the united states and the rest of the world, promote asian artistic excellence and cross-cultural narratives, and enhance career opportunities for asians by raising public awareness of…

Arts & Culture
6
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
9
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
10
California Choral Directors Association

Empowers choral musicians to create transformative experiences for california's diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
11
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
12
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement; the most unlike its peers is Hanmi Family Counseling Center 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

33 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. 33 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
30/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pacific Symphony: $1,934,318 · Arts & CulturePacific SymphonyPACIFIC CHORALE: $361,949 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC CHORALECHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION: $289,400 · Arts & CultureCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATIONTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $130,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $122,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $308,900 · Arts & Culture+9 moreOCMD: $1,094,602 · OtherOCMDTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION: $634,137 · OtherTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATIONFUDAN UNIVERSITY: $240,000 · OtherFUDAN UNIVERSITYASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · OtherMAINLAND CHINA SCHOLAR GOSPEL: $100,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS: $85,000 · Other+25 more: $240,189 · Other+25 moreCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $556,800 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSI…CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $270,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $150,000 · EducationTHE RONALD REAGAN …SAMUELI ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationSAMUELI ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $55,120 · Education+2 more: $5,500 · EducationCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyBIBLES FOR AMERICA INCORPORATED: $100,000 · ReligionHANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC 100 FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesAHMC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthACEING AUTISM INC: $2,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$3,146,567Other$2,493,928Education$1,137,420Philanthropy$125,000Religion$100,000Human Services$50,000Health$17,500

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 budgetPacific Symphony: $1,934,318 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE RICHARD NIXON FOUNDATION: $634,137 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $556,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC CHORALE: $361,949 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION: $289,400 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $270,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $130,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT: $122,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSegerstrom Center for the Arts: $102,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSAMUELI ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $55,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN MUSAE CULTURE CENTER: $52,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetARTS ORANGE COUNTY: $47,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBACKHAUSDANCE: $44,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHANMI FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetHISPANIC 100 FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAHMC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetDISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACDA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELLIS ISLAND HONORS SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE OPERATING CO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOMANG SOCIETY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetACEING AUTISM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSINO US PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTeach Democracy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZEN FILM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Orange County Communi…Farmers & Merchants B…The Rose Hills Founda…California Community …The Crean FoundationCroul Family Foundati…Argyros Family Founda…Samueli FoundationWeingart FoundationBny Mellon Charitable…Morgan Stanley Global…Sempra Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA29.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Crean Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Sempra 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 Zion Charity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zion Charity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Zion Charity Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Zion Charity Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 58 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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