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Zumiez Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON | $2,969 |
| GOOD WORKS MOVEMENT | $2,544 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH | $2,078 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS - BOSTON | $1,725 |
| COCOON HOUSE | $1,673 |
| COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE | $1,673 |
| SHARE INC | $1,673 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD (PROGRAM CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,587 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $1,587 |
| BROOKLYN CENTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $1,587 |
| YOUTHWORKS | $1,582 |
| COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC-BLACKFOOT | $1,582 |
| NORTHLANDS RESCUE MISSION | $1,582 |
| THE NEXT DOOR | $1,582 |
| CHRIST THE KING PARISH AND SCHOOL | $1,561 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
172 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NANative American Heritage Association5× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +53%
- TNTHE NEXT DOOR INC5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +99%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- LSLANSING SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $28k
- SASHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDSone grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -36%
- SCSBCS CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
Rod's house builds authentic connections with young people, supports them in feeling respected and secure in who they are, empowers them to reach their full potential, and positively connects them to the community. rod's house envisions an…
To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.
Services to runaway youth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace At Home Family Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westside Interfaith Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
222 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 222 of the 433 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION OF UTICA INC ↗
- Who funds VINA MOSES WELFARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN COUNTY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI COATS 4 KIDZ ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Butte Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SHOES AND CLOTHES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds EL PROGRAMA HISPANO CATOLICO ↗
- Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHRIGHT 360 ↗
- Who funds TEEN FEED ↗
- Who funds Westside Interfaith Network ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Gap Foundation · Delivering Good Inc · Washington Federal Foundation · For the Girls Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Windermere Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Northwest Harvest Emm · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Zumiez Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Bergen Community Action Inc — 62% of income from government
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc — 59% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- El Programa Hispano Catolico — 13% of income from government
- Youth Services of Tulsa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Outreach Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Clara White Mission Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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