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Zip 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.

$232k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$203kReligion$142kEnvironment$132kYouth Development$109kEducation$77kFood & Nutrition$69kCivil Rights$67kHealth$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $128k
$4,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STS SIMON & JUDE SCHOOL$22,000
VISION OF HOPE$20,000
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$13,500
GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
THE ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION$10,000
CITY OF HOPE$10,000
WORLD HARVEST FOOD BANK$10,000
ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ORANGE$10,000
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$8,000
ST MARK'S UNIVERSITY PARISH$8,000
HEART OF LOS ANGELES$7,500
BRACKEN'S KITCHEN$6,500
DOLORES MISSION$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%URBAN LEAGUE PORTLAND: $2k → 12%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $750 → 7%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE PORTLAND: $2k → 12%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $3k → 11%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $2k → 14%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $500 → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $500 → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $500 → 14%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $3k → 17%THE ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $2k → 14%THE ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $2k → 14%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$680k · 57 repeat orgs$317k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
28

Total granted

$680k
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+16%

Still filing today

61%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
    6× · 2017–2023 · $58k · revenue +175%
  • IH
    Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +12%
  • GC
    GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY OF MOTHER TERESA
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • FS
    FRANCISCAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • NR
    NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
6
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
9
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
10
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; the most unlike its peers is Chicago Cred 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

58 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. 58 of the 103 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
38/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY OF MOTHER TERESA: $150,000 · OtherTHE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY OF MOTHER TERESADOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPE: $69,500 · OtherDOMINICAN SISTERS VISION OF HOPESTS SIMON & JUDE SCHOOL: $41,891 · OtherSTS SIMON & JUDE SCHOOL+66 more: $369,050 · Other+66 moreBOLSA CHICA LAND TRUST: $38,000 · EnvironmentBOLSA CHICA …GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY: $23,000 · EnvironmentGAVIOTA COAS…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESO…CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR C…CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $6,750 · EnvironmentCASCADE FORE…Amazon Watch Inc: $4,500 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH: $4,000 · Environment+4 more: $5,900 · EnvironmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $58,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY IND…HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $43,700 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LO…Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $30,000 · Human ServicesNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $14,500 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $6,400 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $3,250 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 · Human Services+4 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $27,100 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,000 · Civil RightsNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $5,500 · Civil RightsMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $5,400 · Civil Rights+1 more: $700 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $14,150 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $8,000 · InternationalCORAZON INC: $6,650 · InternationalCONCERN AMERICA: $2,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 · InternationalHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy
Other$630,441Environment$115,150Youth Development$101,700Human Services$66,650Civil Rights$50,700International$32,800Philanthropy$30,000

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 budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $58,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $43,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOLSA CHICA LAND TRUST: $38,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $27,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY: $23,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES: $17,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBrackens Kitchen Inc: $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK: $14,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $14,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO ABORTION FUND: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $6,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCORAZON INC: $6,650 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $6,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $5,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIONS CHICAGO DREAM INC NFP: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYMAKERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $1,500 over 1y, 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 HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BOLSA CHICA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds GAVIOTA COAST CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
  • Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO ABORTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CORAZON 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.

Orange County Communi…California Community …Seeding JusticeRobert R McCormick Fo…The Kroger Co Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…PatagoniaorgThe Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Morgan Stanley Global…Synchrony FoundationSempra Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Seeding Justice · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Synchrony Foundation · 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 Zip Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zip Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Urban League of Portland Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 103 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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