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Zoellner 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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$215kEducation$120kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$8kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$2kInternational$1kRecreation & Sports$500
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,184
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$11,184
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%Connecticut Challenge Inc: $1k → 9%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5k → 7%ST MARY'S ACADEMY: $2k → 8%SOBER APARTMENT LIVING: $150k → 9%ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 12%CONNECTICUT CHALLENGE: $500 → 9%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 7%ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL CHOICE: $1k → 8%ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 12%CT CHALLENGE: $500 → 9%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 7%COLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%Arrupe Jesuit High School: $18k → 12%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 7%Alliance for School Choice: $500 → 8%ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 12%FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1k → 7%ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 12%DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $500 → 7%ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 12%ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 12%ARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 12%WE DON'T WASTE: $1k → 12%SOBER APARTMENT LIVING: $20k → 12%SOBER APARTMENT LIVING CO: $20k → 12%SOBER APARTMENT LIVING: $15k → 12%Sober Apartment Living: $10k → 12%ACE SCHOLARSHIP: $3k → 12%FATHER WOODY'S HAVEN OF HOPE: $3k → 12%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$344k · 7 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$344k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
-15%

Still filing today

57%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • SA
    Sober Apartment Living CO
    5× · 2018–2023 · $215k · revenue +504%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    5× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +74%
  • DR
    DENVER RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • HO
    HAVEN OF HOPE
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +19%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SM
    ST MARY'S ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
2
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding Colorado

The mission of feeding colorado, which represents the five feeding america food banks in the state, is to improve food security in colorado through policy, advocacy, partnership, and education.

Food & Nutrition
4
Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services
5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health
7
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition
8
Metro Caring

Metro caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)metro caring, in partnership with our community, understands that…

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9
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services
10
Goodwill Industries of Denver

Goodwill's mission is to provide education, career development, and employment opportunities to help coloradans in need achieve self-sufficiency, dignity, and hope through the power of work.

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11
Sharing Excess

Sharing excess (se) is a philadelphia-based nonprofit that uses surplus food as a solution to scarcity. while over 40 million people in the us face food insecurity, nearly 40% of the nation's food supply is going to waste. our mission is…

Food & Nutrition
12
Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sober Apartment Living CO: $215,000 · Crime & LegalSober Apartment Living COARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $108,484 · OtherARRUPE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOLSALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $7,250 · Other+5 moreFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $9,000 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · EducationPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 · Human ServicesUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesHAVEN OF HOPE: $2,525 · PhilanthropyConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge: $1,500 · HealthCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Crime & Legal$215,000Other$120,734Food & Nutrition$10,000Education$4,000Human Services$4,000Philanthropy$2,525Health$1,500Recreation & Sports$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSober Apartment Living CO: $215,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN OF HOPE: $2,525 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO GOLF FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Zoellner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zoellner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 17 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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