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Lila & Violet Zaranti Fndtn Tr

Cincinnati, OH · EIN 31-6673772. Reported 38 grants totalling $247,000 to 19 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,250median grant
$247,000granted, 2021-2024
19organizations funded
55%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,484,664assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Lila & Violet Zaranti Fndtn Tr did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $14,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
12 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Resurrection ProjectChicago, IL$32,000442024
Our Lady of Tepeyac ElementaryChicago, IL$24,500332024
Tfk Chicago VoyagersSchaumburg, IL$24,500332024
St Agnes ParishChicago Hts, IL$24,000222023
Parenting for Non-ViolenceFlossmoor, IL$23,500442024
Aid for Women IncChicago, IL$15,000222022
Pro-Life ChampionsGlenview, IL$15,000442024
Franciscan OutreachChicago, IL$14,500332024
Bridgeport Catholic AcademyChicago, IL$10,000112024
Our Lady of Tepeyac High SchoolChicago, IL$10,000112022
Our Lady of Guadalupe ChurchChicago, IL$9,500222023
Chicago VoyagersPalatine, IL$7,500112021
Our Lady of St GermaineOak Lawn, IL$7,500112023
Little Sisters of the Poor Chicago IncChicago, IL$7,000222024
St Francis of AssisiOrland Park, IL$5,500112023
St Francis of Assisi Parish Catholic Charities Outreach MinistryOrland Park, IL$5,500112024
Our Lady of Guadalupe SchoolChicago, IL$5,000112021
Catholic Charities Outreach Through St Francis of AssisiOrland Park, IL$4,000112021
Southside Pregnancy Center IncEvergreen Park, IL$2,500112023

10 of 19 (53%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 55%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
8 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$57,500$6,000
20229$70,000$6,000
202311$55,000$4,500
20249$64,500$7,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Chicago, IL
$140K
Schaumburg, IL
$24K
Chicago Hts, IL
$24K
Orland Park, IL
$15K
Glenview, IL
$15K
Flossmoor, IL
$12K
Oak Lawn, IL
$8K
Palatine, IL
$8K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,250. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Illinois.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Lila & Violet Zaranti Fndtn Tr's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 630858, Cincinnati, OH, 45263. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 31-6673772 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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