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Zyne Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$2.9MHealth$920kEducation$837kFood & Nutrition$500kHousing & Shelter$125kAnimals$120kCrime & Legal$103kPhilanthropy$82kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $850k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EPARCHY OF OUR LADY OF LEBANON OF LOS ANGELES$175,000
ST ROSE ACADEMY$150,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$140,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$125,000
ST ELIAS MARONITE CHURCH$80,000
JONES VALLEY URBAN FARM$75,000
OUR LADY OF SORROWS CHURCH$55,000
JOHN CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES$45,000
CATHOLIC CENTER OF CONCERN$42,000
HEDGES & HIWAYS PRISON MINISTRIES$40,000
GRANTED LLC$36,000
CATHEDRAL OF SAINT PAUL$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
UNLESS U$25,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES: $45k → 7%UNLESS U: $25k → 16%UNLESS U: $25k → 16%SOUTH HIGHLAND ADULT DAY CARE CTR: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
IN
CT
MO
TN
NC
SC
LA
AL
GA
FL

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 32 repeat orgs$591k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
13

Total granted

$5.6M
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+10%

Still filing today

44%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesReligionRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +40%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +40%
  • FF
    FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • OS
    Our Sunday Visitor Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +17%
  • HN
    HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • ST
    ST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
University of Sioux Falls

The university of sioux falls, a christian university in the liberal arts tradition, educates students in the humanities, sciences and professions. the traditional motto of the university is culture for service, that is, we seek to foster…

Education
4
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
University of Louisville Real Estate Foundation Inc

To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.

Philanthropy
7
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
8
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
9
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

10
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
11
Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion
12
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Harbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Smartplay. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Pantries & AssistanceUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Homeless Services & ShelterLand Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionYouth Sports Booster Organi…Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%7%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr17%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr17%29%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
14%
3,157/22,748

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 54 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EPARCHY OF OUR LADY OF LEBANON — $1,125,000 · OtherEPARCHY OF OUR LADY OF LEBANONST ELIAS MARONITE CHURCH — $602,700 · OtherST ELIAS MARONITE CHURCHALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION — $600,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONDIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM IN ALABAMA INC — $412,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM IN ALABAMA INCST ROSE CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $405,000 · OtherST ROSE CATHOLIC SCHOOLOUR LADY OF SORROWS CHURCH — $225,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF SAINT PAUL — $190,000 · OtherEPARCHY OF OUR LADY OF LEBANON OF LOS ANGELES — $175,000 · Other+30 more — $1,264,240 · Other+30 moreCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $350,000 · Food & NutritionALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $150,000 · HealthST MARGARETS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $30,000 · HealthTHE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION — $30,000 · HealthDEFENDERS FOR CHILDREN — $23,000 · HealthFIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES — $125,000 · ReligionOur Sunday Visitor Inc — $35,000 · ReligionSamford University — $90,000 · EducationTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationSTEP UP FOR STUDENTS - FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $10,000 · EducationJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM — $150,000 · EmploymentUNLESS U INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES — $45,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,200 · Human Services
Other$4,998,940Food & Nutrition$350,000Health$293,000Religion$160,000Education$155,000Employment$150,000Human Services$96,200

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA — $350,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJONES VALLEY URBAN FARM — $150,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES — $125,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSamford University — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST MARGARETS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNLESS U INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWetlands America Trust Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOur Sunday Visitor Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSTEP UP FOR STUDENTS - FLORIDA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FOR LIFE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE SMARTPLAY — $23,700 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetDEFENDERS FOR CHILDREN — $23,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIVING WATER COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH HIGHLAND ADULT DAY CARE CENTER — $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds JONES VALLEY URBAN FARM
  • Who funds FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Samford University
  • Who funds ST MARGARETS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNLESS U INC
  • Who funds FIRST FRUITS MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Wetlands America Trust Inc
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc
  • Who funds Our Sunday Visitor Inc
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC
  • Who funds THE WOOLLEY INSTITUTE FOR SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EDUCATION
  • Who funds THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STEP UP FOR STUDENTS - FLORIDA 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.

The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL29.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc

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 Zyne Family Foundation Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report 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, FY2025

    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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    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Zyne Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Zyne Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 54 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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