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Zuzus Petals

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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$255kEducation$169kYouth Development$129kArts & Culture$79kCrime & Legal$30kHealth$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$925k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
KK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$10,000
MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TR$10,000
CHICKASAW COUNCIL BSA$8,000
MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$4,000
FARMINGTON ELEMENTARY PTO$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $10k → 16%HELP THE LEAST OF THESE: $5k → 11%SUMNER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20k → 8%FARMINGTON ELEMENTARY PTO: $1k → 17%ILLINOIS FIRE SAFETY ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%HOUSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS: $500 → 17%MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TR: $20k → 17%MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TR: $15k → 17%MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TR: $10k → 17%ALIVE RESCUE MEMPHIS: $1k → 17%RICHLAND ELEMENTARY PTO: $2k → 17%FARMINGTON ELEMENTARY PTO: $1k → 17%MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $225k → 17%RICHLAND ELEMENTARY PTO: $2k → 17%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $20k → 17%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $20k → 17%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $20k → 17%RACHELS KIDS: $10k → 17%CHICKASAW COUNCIL BSA: $10k → 17%CHICKASAW COUNCIL BSA: $10k → 17%CHICKASAW COUNCIL BSA: $10k → 17%RACHELS KIDS: $10k → 17%CHICKASAW COUNCIL BSA: $8k → 17%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $6k → 17%RACHELS KIDS: $5k → 17%MID-SOUTH COVID 19 RESPONSE TEAM: $10k → 17%ST GEORGES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $25k → 17%ST GEORGES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $25k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $15k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACAD: $15k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $15k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 17%ST GEORGES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $10k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6k → 17%MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 17%MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 17%KK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5k → 17%KKK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4k → 17%ST GEORGES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $10k → 17%ST JUDE: $10k → 17%MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 17%MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$430k · 12 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$430k
$303k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+89%

Still filing today

75%
36%

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
EducationHealthFood & NutritionInternationalCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue -1%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue -32%
  • BC
    Binghampton Christian Academy Inc
    5× · 2018–2024 · $51k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • MF
    MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +7%
  • SC
    SUMNER COUNTY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

A Tennessee Public Chartered School established to successfully educate middle school students grades 6-8

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2
Children's Foundation of Memphis
Health
3
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
4
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
5
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
6
Memphis University School

Memphis university school is a college-preparatory school dedicated to academic excellence, cultivation of service and leadership, and the development of well-rounded young men of strong moral character, consistent with the school's…

Education
7
Arkansas Foodbank

None

Food & Nutrition
8
New Hope Academy

Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.

Education
9
Memphis Merit Academy Inc

Memphis merit academy charter school prepares kindergarten through 8th-grade students in memphis for success in high school, college, and life by providing rigorous academics, high-quality instruction, and character development in a…

Education
10
One Family Memphis
Human Services
11
Ymca of Memphis & the Mid-South

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all

Human Services
12
Feed America First of Tennessee

Feed america first is a murfreesboro, tn based food ministry focused upon hunger relief in small towns and rural communities in middle tn and parts of al, ky and ms. since 2000 faf has distributed enough food for over 150,000,000 meals to…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-South Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Farmington Elementary School Pto. 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

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL — $104,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNC…Binghampton Christian Academy Inc — $51,000 · OtherBinghampton Christian Academy IncKK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $45,000 · OtherKK ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONSUMNER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $20,000 · OtherSUMNER COUNTY FOOD BANKKK ALUMMNI ASSOCIATON — $20,000 · OtherKK ALUMMNI ASSOCIATONIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 · OtherST JUDE — $10,000 · OtherMID-SOUTH COVID 19 RESPONSE TEAM — $10,000 · Other+4 more — $10,500 · OtherMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK — $225,000 · Food & NutritionMID-SOUTH FOOD BANKST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL — $70,000 · EducationST GEORGE'S INDEPENDE…MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC — $45,000 · EducationMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY S…Rachel's Kids Inc — $25,000 · EducationRachel's Kids Inc+1 more — $2,000 · EducationMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $30,000 · Crime & LegalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 · HealthILLINOIS FIRE SAFETY ALLIANCE — $1,500 · HealthMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $14,000 · Arts & CultureHELP THE LEAST OF THESE INC — $5,000 · International
Other$295,500Food & Nutrition$225,000Education$142,000Crime & Legal$30,000Health$21,500Arts & Culture$14,000International$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK — $225,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL — $104,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBinghampton Christian Academy Inc — $51,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC — $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRachel's Kids Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP THE LEAST OF THESE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFarmington Elementary School PTO — $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetILLINOIS FIRE SAFETY ALLIANCE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Christian Community F…Community Foundation …Crews Family Foundati…Jewish Foundation of …The Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Crews Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Zuzus Petals 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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