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Zuzus Petals at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
KK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$10,000
MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TR$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
CHICKASAW COUNCIL BSA$8,000
MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$4,000
FARMINGTON ELEMENTARY PTO$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%ST GEORGES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $10k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $6k → 17%BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5k → 17%MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 17%KKK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 17%KK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4k → 17%ST GEORGES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $10k → 17%MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 17%ST JUDE: $10k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 17%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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-South Food Bank; 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 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. 13 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ASSOCIATIONKK ALUMMNI ASSOCIATON: $20,000 · OtherKK ALUMMNI ASSOCIATONSUMNER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherSUMNER COUNTY FOOD BANKIndividual 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 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 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
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.

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

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 Zuzus Petals funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zuzus Petals. 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%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
    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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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