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Zip's Gift Inc at a glance

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Zip's Gift Inc

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.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Zip's Gift Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Warren County, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Zip's Gift Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $6k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
4
’18
0
’19
6
’20
6
’21
9
’22
9
’23
10
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Animals$54kEnvironment$33kHuman Services$3kHousing & Shelter$2kPublic Benefit$2kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHealth$1k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAWS ALONG THE RIVER HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
ANNA SHELTER$1,000
ALLEGHENY VALLEY VETERANS CENTER$500
HOME FOR GOOD DOG RESCUE$500
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$500
RIDGWAY ANIMAL HAVEN$250
T&D'S CATS OF THE WORLD$250
FOUR FOOTED FRIENDS$250
ARTIC SPIRIT RESCUE$250
DELAWARE VALLEY SIBERION HUSKEY RESCUE$250
AMERICAS VETDOGS THE VETERANS K9 CORPS INC$250
Individual grant recipient$20
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 (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%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

MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
UT
VA
MD
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 15 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$52k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+35%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsPublic BenefitHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FF
    FOUR FOOTED FRIENDS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +65%
  • NB
    NITTANY BEAGLE RESCUE
    4× · 2018–2022 · $4k · revenue +74%
  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • CT
    CONQUER THE COLONY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • HA
    HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +35%
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
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
2
Beagle Haven Rescue & Hospice Inc

Organization is a dog rescue. Accepts dogs from shelters or owner surrenders, provides appropriate veterinary care, and adopts dogs out.

—
3
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
4
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
5
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
6
Almost Home Canine Rescue

Resuce, care and adopting canines

Animals
7
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
8
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
9
Raskels Rescue
Animals
10
Tennessee River Rescues

we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time

Animals
11
Angies Dog House

We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…

Animals
12
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beaver County Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is American Legion 135 Chief Cornplanter. 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

24 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. 24 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $32,897 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,369 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONQUER THE COLONY: $3,000 · OtherCONQUER THE COLONYAmerican Legion 135 Chief Cornplanter: $2,730 · OtherAmerican Legion 135 Chief CornplanterMCKEAN CO HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 · Other+7 more: $2,575 · OtherTRI-COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER INC: $15,000 · AnimalsTRI-COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER INCPaws Along the River Humane Society: $9,000 · AnimalsPaws Along the River Humane SocietyFOUR FOOTED FRIENDS: $5,250 · AnimalsFOUR FOOTED FRIENDSNITTANY BEAGLE RESCUE: $3,500 · AnimalsNITTANY BEAGLE RESCUEANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS: $2,000 · Animals+10 more: $5,950 · Animals+10 moreHUNTERS SHARING THE HARVEST INC: $1,500 · Food & NutritionHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterALLEGHENY VALLEY VETERANS CENTER: $500 · Public BenefitLEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC: $500 · Public BenefitAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $500 · Public BenefitCommunity Foundation of Warren County: $1,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $1,000 · HealthBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $500 · Human Services
Other$50,071Animals$40,700Food & Nutrition$1,500Housing & Shelter$1,500Public Benefit$1,500Philanthropy$1,000Health$1,000Human Services$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRI-COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetPaws Along the River Humane Society: $9,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFOUR FOOTED FRIENDS: $5,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNITTANY BEAGLE RESCUE: $3,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Legion 135 Chief Cornplanter: $2,730 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTERS SHARING THE HARVEST INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGWAY ANIMAL HAVEN: $750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY VALLEY VETERANS CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY SIBERIAN HUSKY RESCUE INC: $500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHome For Good Dog Rescue Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENDING HEARTS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGateway Humane Society Inc: $200 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.

Petsmart Charities IncGreater Good CharitiesThe Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Petsmart Charities IncAZ14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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's Gift Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zip's Gift Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Zip's Gift Inc?

Find your warmest path to Zip's Gift Inc 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 35 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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