Minnesota · Nonprofit
ZTP
ZTP (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,713 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($220,369). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $395k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $431k
- Net assets
- $221k
What Ztp does
Mission
zAmya Theater Project uses the powerful combination of lived experience(s) and artistic expression to inspire our communities to work for housing justice for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
"Creative Expression Sessions": Weekly creative workshops in partnership with Hennepin County Library at the Minneapolis Central Library, a favored daytime hangout for people experiencing homelessness. Objective: to build community for those experiencing homelessness and create an access point for joining zAmya. zAmya's performance "Living in America: The Waiting List is Full" was created at the library in 2024 was remounted in 2025 and toured to 6 venues in Minneapolis and St. Paul including Minneapolis Central Library, 825 Arts, Emma Norton's Restoring Waters and Marvela Senior Homes, Perpich Arts High School, and Westminster Presbyterian Church. Participant and Audience Total: 968
$115,715 spent$114,506 earned by the program36% of program spendingzAmya continues to use our workshops and performances to build relationships between homeless and housed individuals in St. Paul. Catholic Charities' St. Paul Opportunity Center and Listening House hosted pilot workshops by zAmya to recruit participants for a performance focused on the theme of community safety at 825 Arts on University Ave. "Safe 2 Say" was performed as part of the 825 Art-B-Q in May 2025. This event kickstarted an ongoing partnership between zAmya and 825 Arts. Additionally, zAmya performed "A Challenge to Change", our performance about residents of Catholic Charities' Dorothy Day Campus in Downtown St. Paul, at Securian Financial Center as part of their Care Campaign. Participant and Audience Total: 320
$58,965 spent$58,965 earned by the program18% of program spendingzAmya, North Loop Neighborhood Association and Avivo joined forces to create the project, Neighbors Being Neighbors In the North Loop, which aims to establish a shared vision in the North Loop of what needs to happen for all community members to feel safe, have shelter, and ensure support for the most vulnerable. In 2025, zAmya, Avivo, and North Loop Neighborhood Association (NLNA) rehearsed "DisPlace: A North Loop Fantasy Quest" over the winter. We held four performances March 13-16 for 400 people at Luminary Arts Center in North Loop neighborhood. Playwright Elle Thoni drew inspiration from the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons to explore an alternate reality where basic housing needs are met and fulfilled. The show had 25 performers, many of whom came from Avivo Village emergency shelter. Social service organizations tabled at each show, sharing resources, including Street Voices of Change, Aliveness Project, Native American Community Clinic, and others. Live intermission music provided by Brass Solidarity elevated the sense of radical, community based activism.Each show was nearly sold out with diverse crowds including individuals who had the lived experience of…
$54,835 spent$36,899 earned by the program17% of program spendingOther programs include: General mission activities including troupe meetings and "ZLABs"- zAmya's venue for troupe member new work development. Also in 2025, zAmya brought a performance to the Minnesota Coaltion for the Homeless Annual Conference and created 4 monologues for a fundraiser at the Lighthouse in Owatonna.
$93,586 spent$93,586 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $323,101.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $92k to $223k (+141%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 30% · 2023 34% · 2024 27% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of ZTP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $33k → $67k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 ZTP’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
ZTP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ZTP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 35% · 2023 44% — 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
70% of ZTP's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
ZTP has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ZTP
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZTP: 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 ZTP?
- ZTP (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,713 to it, the largest being PROPEL NONPROFITS ($220,369). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ZTP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $430,713 in grants to ZTP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZTP?
- PROPEL NONPROFITS is the largest funder on record, with $220,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZTP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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