Colorado · Nonprofit
ZEPHYR IMPACT
ZEPHYR IMPACT (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,843,875 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($6,274,468). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $667k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Zephyr Impact does
Mission
Zephyr Impact is an impact accelerator, designing ambitious and high-impact philanthropic initiatives to address society's most urgent social issues. This 501c3 platform connects and supports donors, social entrepreneurs, and subject-matter experts to maximize impact through connected and system-wide solutions, achieve meaningful outcomes for communities. These outcomes are tracked and celebrated to create further momentum for additional philanthropic action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, Zephyr Impact strengthened and emboldened change-makers across three initiatives by structuring and implementing hands-on philanthropic support initiatives and connecting social entrepreneurs with purposeful capital and world-class talent. Zephyr enables donors to pool resources, co-fund initiatives, and expand reach and impact for promising solutions in their field of interest. In 2025, Zephyr Impact supported three funds, the youth wellbeing project, the thriving youth initiative, and the mindful leadership project, furthering charitable impact in the fields of leadership, conservation, and positive youth development.Zephyr Impact advanced this work in 2025 by providing business planning, financial planning, communications supports, and strategic guidance to change makers within these portfolios. During the year Zephyr Impact curated specialists to design, and deliver value-added communications and strategic support services to accelerate impact.during 2025, the Zephyr Impact awarded over $ 5 million in grants to 15 high-impact non-profit organizations and initiatives working in youth wellbeing, education and conservation spaces.
$5,459,138 spentof which $5,043,500 as grants$236,233 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,459,138.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $223k to $6.6M (+2845%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
49% of ZEPHYR IMPACT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $306k → $1.3M.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ZEPHYR IMPACT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ZEPHYR IMPACT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ZEPHYR IMPACT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ZEPHYR IMPACT is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ZEPHYR IMPACT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZEPHYR IMPACT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ZEPHYR IMPACT?
- ZEPHYR IMPACT (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,843,875 to it, the largest being Wend II Inc ($6,274,468). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZEPHYR IMPACT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,843,875 in grants to ZEPHYR IMPACT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZEPHYR IMPACT?
- Wend II Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,274,468 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZEPHYR IMPACT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing