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Zoma Foundation Inc

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.

$10M
Granted FY2023
45
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$2.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

76% of Zoma Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 27 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Zoma Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 36 organizations, $10M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

22
’19
37
’20
33
’21
29
’22
36
’23
27
’24

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

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$35MInternational$15MEducation$9.4MHealth$7.1MHuman Services$5.5MCommunity Improvement$3.4MYouth Development$2.5MPhilanthropy$2.2MOther$0
02FY2023 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+9 grants · $7.4M
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$529M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUNDACION VIENTO SUR$2,748,000
HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY$1,469,319
WINDWARD FUND$647,139
ARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$574,594
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$561,265
CAREERWISE COLORADO$540,613
YOUTHPOWER365$336,041
THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE$290,000
COLORADO PERINATAL CARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE$250,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$240,000
ILLUMINATE COLORADO$230,000
JEFFCO SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$195,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$174,995
Individual grant recipient$160,000
COLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE$125,000
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.

US giving: 76% of grant dollars ($63M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($20M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tides Center: $68k → 10%STARTUP COLORADO: $50k → 12%FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $50k → 17%STARTUP COLORADO: $50k → 12%First Southwest Community Fund: $50k → 17%FIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $50k → 17%First Southwest Community Fund: $50k → 17%First Southwest Community Fund: $50k → 17%First Southwest Community Fund: $35k → 17%First Southwest Community Fund: $15k → 17%Bright by Three: $450k → 12%Bright Beginnings: $450k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREE: $450k → 12%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $50k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $50k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $50k → 12%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $50k → 12%Early Milestones Colorado: $50k → 12%EARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC

Beyond the US: 24% of all-years giving ($20M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Chile$20M · 10 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of Zoma Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Zoma Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 26% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48M · 57 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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

57
35

Total granted

$48M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+21%

Still filing today

74%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $441k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +58%
  • WR
    Western Resource Advocates
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +31%
  • TC
    THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TC
    TOMPKINS CONSERVATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -96%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4.2M · revenue -4%
  • EG
    ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +19%
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
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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2
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
6
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
7
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
10
The Colorado Health Foundation
Health
11
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce

The denver metro chamber of commerce is the architect of tomorrow, igniting change and driving progress to build dynamic economies and communities. we champion innovation, forge powerful partnerships, and relentlessly advocate for our…

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12
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mitchell Kapor Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 109 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
50/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fundacion Viento Sur: $18,430,020 · OtherFundacion Viento SurTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $16,500,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $3,000,000 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,999,957 · Other+58 more: $16,085,689 · Other+58 moreTOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $5,000,000 · EnvironmentTOMPKINS CONSER…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,169,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE …WINDWARD FUND: $1,964,203 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND+3 more: $504,914 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,905,837 · EducationCAREERWISE COLORADO: $590,613 · EducationTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $345,000 · EducationEDUCATION DESIGN LAB: $297,820 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $235,000 · EducationColorado Succeeds: $220,000 · EducationCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $193,643 · EducationDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $180,000 · Education+7 more: $390,564 · EducationRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $988,898 · HealthCOLORADO PERINATAL CARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE: $956,774 · HealthChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $765,562 · HealthCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $350,000 · HealthCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $350,000 · HealthMATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH LDRSHP ALLIANCE: $350,000 · HealthSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $306,216 · Health+4 more: $254,898 · HealthROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTHPOWER365: $971,643 · PhilanthropyMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $530,000 · PhilanthropyMITCHELL KAPOR FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $120,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY COLORADO: $104,135 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $1,350,000 · Human ServicesFIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $300,150 · Human ServicesEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $300,000 · Human ServicesSTARTUP COLORADO: $100,000 · Human Services+1 more: $68,307 · Human ServicesWestern Resource Advocates: $1,251,458 · Crime & LegalTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$56,015,666Environment$11,638,117Education$4,558,477Health$4,322,348Philanthropy$2,980,778Human Services$2,118,457Crime & Legal$1,551,458

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $16,500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $5,000,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,169,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $3,000,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetARAPAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,999,957 over 3y, 23% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $1,964,203 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $1,905,837 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $1,350,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $1,251,458 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $1,030,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation: $988,898 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365: $971,643 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCOLORADO PERINATAL CARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE: $956,774 over 5y, 44% of budgetIlluminate Colorado: $775,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $765,562 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAREERWISE COLORADO: $590,613 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $530,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDENVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $504,660 over 6y, 11% of budgetENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC): $500,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSCL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetINVEST IN KIDS: $495,351 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetCOLORADO HEALTH INSTITUTE: $350,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK INC: $350,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH LDRSHP ALLIANCE: $350,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $345,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $306,216 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFIRST SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY FUND: $300,150 over 5y, 13% of budgetEARLY MILESTONES COLORADO: $300,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetCOLORADO CHILDREN'S CAMPAIGN: $300,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE KEMPE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL: $298,542 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetEDUCATION DESIGN LAB: $297,820 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF COLORADO: $275,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $265,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PATIENT SAFETY: $263,664 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMITCHELL KAPOR FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $235,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Succeeds: $220,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetGRAND JUNCTION ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $193,643 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $141,250 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.

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.

The Denver FoundationRose Community Founda…The Colorado Health F…Colorado Gives Founda…Caring for Colorado F…Temple Hoyne Buell Fo…Daniels FundGates Family Foundati…Rose FoundationGary PhilanthropyMile High United Way …Telligen Community In…
The Denver FoundationCO62× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · Daniels Fund · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Foundation · Gary Philanthropy · Mile High United Way Inc · Telligen Community Initiative

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 Zoma Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zoma Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Postpartum Support International: 43% of income from government
  • Consensus Building Institute Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Zoma Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Zoma Foundation 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 109 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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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