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Zwagil 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.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$80kHuman Services$69kRecreation & Sports$30kFood & Nutrition$26kEnvironment$16kInternational$15kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,605
ONE TREE PLANTED$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
FOSTER KINSHIP$2,525
BETTER TOGETHER$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOUTH EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $6k → 19%BETTER TOGETHER: $3k → 10%WOMEN IN DISTRESS: $7k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $34k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $3k → 13%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

VT
NV
PA
CA
MO
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$181k · 5 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$181k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • FK
    FOSTER KINSHIP
    2× · 2023–2024 · $36k · revenue +56%
  • TW
    TOGETHER WE RISE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +71%
  • TM
    Travis Manion Foundation
    2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TA
    Tarrant Area Food Bank
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • T
    THORNORG
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • W
    WATERORG
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%
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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
3
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
4
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
5
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
6
Sharing Excess

Sharing excess (se) is a philadelphia-based nonprofit that uses surplus food as a solution to scarcity. while over 40 million people in the us face food insecurity, nearly 40% of the nation's food supply is going to waste. our mission is…

Food & Nutrition
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
9
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
11
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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12
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterorg; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR RESCUE: $79,860 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUEFOSTER KINSHIP: $36,228 · Human ServicesFOSTER KINSHIPWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $7,317 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF B…Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food B…BETTER TOGETHER: $2,500 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $10,605 · OtherIndividual grant rec…Tarrant Area Food Bank: $10,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food Ba…THORNORG: $10,000 · OtherTHORNORGSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $6,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BAN…Individual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSETHREE SQUARE: $3,836 · OtherTHREE SQUARETravis Manion Foundation: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTravis Manion F…ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $10,100 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTE…TOGETHER WE RISE: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsTOGETHER WE R…WATERORG: $10,000 · InternationalOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $6,293 · Environment
Arts & Culture$79,860Human Services$52,045Other$47,941Philanthropy$35,100Recreation & Sports$30,000International$10,000Environment$6,293

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOUR RESCUE: $79,860 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOSTER KINSHIP: $36,228 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $7,317 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $6,293 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $3,836 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Zwagil Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zwagil Foundation. 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%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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