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Zuschlag Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $252k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF WISDOM CHURCH | $141,500 |
| ST PIUS X CHURCH | $60,000 |
| ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DYNAMIC CATHOLIC | $37,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA | $35,000 |
| GEORGE & BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ACADIANA | $20,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $20,000 |
| BISHOP'S SERVICE APPEAL | $12,500 |
| RAGIN CAJUNS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN EVANGELIST | $10,000 |
| ST BERNARD CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ACADIANA | $6,500 |
| 232-HELP | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Zuschlag Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- TDTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $98k · revenue +13%
- TATIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +232%
- LFLSU FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $55k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LOUISIANAone grant, 2020 · $25k
- EOENDOWMENT OF THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACEone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -17%
- SASAINT ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
The foundation provides philanthropic support services to assist the university of louisiana at lafayette in furthering its mission of achieving excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research, and public service.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
To improve opportunities for cancer research in Louisiana and enhance educational efforts regarding prevention and control over cancer.
To promote excellence in science, technology, and education by supporting education and research projects that enhance the economy of louisiana.
The lsue foundation supports programs and activities designed to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to advance, promote or otherwise benefit lsu eunice.
Educate public on special interest in Louisiana
The organization's mission is to preserve, restore and expand downtown lafayette, louisiana as a business and cultural center.
Mission of the louisiana superintendent's academy is to respond to the need for strong leadership in louisiana school districts by creating a selective and rigorous professional learning experience to increase the pool of qualified…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lsu Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 99 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
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 THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Acadiana ↗
- Who funds TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Acadiana Inc ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ENDOWMENT OF THE US INSTITUTE OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF FATIMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW IBERIA MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE OUR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds 232-HELP INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Haynie Family Foundation · Martial F Billeaud Sr Foundation · Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation · Mills Family Foundation Inc · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Stuller Family Foundation · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · The Rucks Family Foundation · James D Moncus Family 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 Zuschlag Family 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.
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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